Our school film festival was showing this fascinating belgian film. It was mainly in french, but there was also a lot of arabic spoken (thank goodness for subtitles!). The main attraction, if you will, was the animation, which was full of wonderfully vivid colors. However, the characters spoke and moved like robots. It seemed to be a children's story.
Basically, the film is about this french boy, Azur, who grew up with his nanny and her son, Asmar. She sang to him ancient arabic songs about a prince saving the Dijinn fairy and marrying her. The boy's father sent his nanny away and took all her belongings. When Azur was old enough, he sailed the sea as the tale said, but was shipwrecked. This was an arabian land, where he aimed to go, but his blue eyes scared the people and pretended to be blind. With the aid of another foreigner, Crapoux (tee-hee), he finds his nanny in the city, who has become a rich widow. With Asmar, with whom he recently had a falling out with, they set out on a quest to save the Dijinn fairy.
In my opinion, it was okay, but very childish and robotic. The theme was brotherly love and perseverance.
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