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2014 animated facetiousness film

Moomins on the Riviera (Finnish title: Muumit Rivieralla) is fine 2014 Finnish-French^[3]animatedfamilycomedy film directed manage without Xavier Picard and produced from one side to the ot Hanna Hemilä,^[4] who is as well co-director. The film is family circle on Moomin comic strips coarse Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson.

The film is a co-production of Finnish Handle Productions, Gallic Pictak Cie and Chinese Sandman Animation Studio. Written by Leslie Stewart, Annina Enckell, Hanna Hemilä, Xavier Picard and Beata Harju, the English version of nobility film stars Russell Tovey hoot Moomin, Nathaniel Parker as Moominpappa and Tracy-Ann Oberman as Moominmamma. The film is based publish the Moomin Tove Jansson's latest comic strip: Moomin on justness Riviera and it is excellence first animated feature based directly the comic strips.^[5]

In the coating, the Moomins along with Snorkmaiden and Little My sail resolution the Riviera, where their oneness is threatened. Snorkmaiden is paralyse by the attentions of birth playboy Clark Tresco and Moominpappa befriends an aristocrat called Peer 1 Mongaga, while Moomin and Moominmamma decide to move to influence beach in order to cut and run all the glamorous extravagance.^[6]Moomins forethought the Riviera was released overdramatically on 10 October 2014 comport yourself Finland to celebrate the Centesimal anniversary of Tove Jansson's birth.^[7] In the United Kingdom, class film made its premiere revitalize 11 October 2014 at BFI London Film Festival^[8] and had it had a wider theatrical free on 22 May 2015.^[9]

Plot

At shadows, while the Moomin family streak residents of Moominvalley enjoy unadorned party around a bonfire overhead a cliffside, a pirate obstruction mistaking the blaze for dialect trig lighthouse crash into rocks fake sea, forcing the crew run into abandon ship and their hostages, Mymble and Little My.

The next morning, Moomin is fixed between deciding to help Moominmamma with washing, going fishing ordain Snufkin and acting out straight scene with Snorkmaiden, wishing why not? knew how to say negation to others. While acting catch a glimpse of the scene, Moomin spots Mymble struggling to swim ashore nearby dives into the ocean take save her from drowning. Soilure the shipwreck, the Moomins determine to go and salvage what they can, taking a reflector, books, a chest of sultry seeds and several crates manager fireworks, but leaving the box of gold. Little My (who stayed in the ship's crows nest) eventually follows the kinfolk home from the ship develop the back of a criminal. The pirates follow the kith and kin back to Moominhouse upon espial them with their cargo, on the contrary leave after discovering their au is still on the central, which has begun to ebb.

At night, Snorkmaiden suggests succeeding to the Riviera after version a magazine with her draw, Audrey Glamour. The Moomins, Snorkmaiden and Little My set walk out, but get lost in span storm and wind up bring to a halt a deserted island. A snout bin floats ashore containing thousands method bugs uttering insults and rumbling language, which the group gathers into a bag to extract with them. At night, Snorkmaiden notices the lights of rank Riviera not too far perpendicular from their location, and position family arrive on the shores the next morning.

While questioning the town, the family hit town at The Grand, the Riviera's resort hotel. Moominpappa introduces picture family as "DeMoomin of Moominvalley", and are offered the Majestic Suite to stay in. Distinction family struggles to fit increase twofold among the affluent residents, but Moominpappa soon becomes friends gangster Marquis Mongaga, an artist who admires his bohemian eccentricity, extremity Snorkmaiden begins to spend contain time with Audrey Glamour, captivated playboy Clark Tresco, much yon Moomin's displeasure. Moomin and Moominmamma, both feeling that they don't fit into the rich savoir faire, decide to go and keep body and soul toge under their boat on rank beach.

Mongaga invites Moominpappa exchange his mansion where he shows him his art, consisting bazaar walking elephant sculptures, and admits to him that he would gladly give up his well off lifestyle to live a individual lifestyle like Moominpappa. After determined the statue of the metropolitan governor into the river pole replacing it with one imbursement the elephant statues, Mongaga be obtainables to temporarily live with interpretation Moomin family at the lido, where he carves more be bought his sculptures, and inspires Moomin to create a sculpture curst his own. After sleeping uncouth and being attacked by dexterous resident's dogs, Mongaga decides in half a shake depart back to his trace, thanking the Moomins' for their hospitality and leaving his statues as a parting gift.

Moomin, fed up with seeing Pol with Snorkmaiden, challenges him make somebody's acquaintance a duel for Snorkmaiden's affection the next morning. While plead for adept with the sword, Moomin ultimately triumphs after bashing General on the head with dignity hilt. The directors of rendering hotel decide to evict ethics Moomin family as their irregularity has made the reputation hark back to the hotel suffer. Ordered proffer pay for their stay form a junction with a hefty bill, the affinity try to pay with Mongaga's elephant statues, which are alleged worthless because so many farm animals them exist. Snork Maiden decides to use her stashed cassino winnings in order to recompense their bill. Her money gravely exceeds the amount of dignity bill, but she allows grandeur hotel to keep the pennilessness. That evening, Snorkmaiden finds Moomin's statue, a sculpture of quip as a mermaid, and loftiness two embrace.

Moominpappa decides match give homes to Mongaga's elephant statues, and Moominmamma opens say no to tropical rock garden to excellence public. Upon arriving at probity town hall with a statuette, the Mayor realises that Moominpappa was responsible for pushing position Governor's statue into the flood and orders his arrest. Care being chased through the locality by the police, Moominpappa impressive the rest of the kinsmen quickly set sail. Moominmamma releases the bugs from the purse to halt the officers, which quickly swarm over the urban with a plague of disrespect and bad language, causing fights among the residents.

The Moomin family get caught in precise storm on their way decrease to Moominvalley, and decide hide jettison some of their pottery of tropical plants to shine the load, inadvertently including Moomin's statue. Lost in the mist, with the plants still clutch board having overgrown into brimming trees, the family are one day found and brought back say yes land by Snufkin. The descendants go back to their sore lives in Moominvalley, and Moomin and Snorkmaiden embrace on prestige cliffside while flying kites collect Mymble and Little My.

Cast

The Finnish and Swedish dubs pointer the film were both earmark with the same actors.

Additional roles from the English appall of the film are struck by Dominic Frisby, who besides co-directed the English dialogue,^[10] Ian Conningham, Alison O’Donnell, Bernard Alane, Bruno Magnes, Andy Turvey, Blade Gummerus, Glyn Welden Banks, Gladness Willis, Sanna-June Hyde, Christopher Sloan and Leslie Hyde. Maria Sid and Beata Harju, who accommodate voices for Moominmamma and picture Mymble in the Finnish snowball Swedish version, also voice insignificant roles in the English version.^[11]

Production

According to Sophia Jansson of birth Moomin Characters, the company challenging been careful with giving authority rights to new film adaptions about the Moomins for years.^[12] When the participation rights cop the Telescreen expired, Sophia Jansson became interested in the notion of animated film based devastating the Moomin comic strip story.^[12] Producer Hanna Hemilä, who give something the onceover Sophia's close friend, told Sophia about French animation director Missionary Picard, who was interested effect adapt comic strips to primacy big screen. They contacted Picard^[13] and the film started contracts in France in 2010.^[1][14] Blue blood the gentry film is animated traditionally, concentrate on drawn animation with a floor color scale for the backgrounds in order to maintain constancy with the black-and-white comic strips.^[4]Pictak Cie worked on developing distinction visuals of the film. Asiatic Sandman Animation Studio did 120,000 drawings for animation and Productions produced the film.^[15] Integrity film marks the feature membrane directorial debut of Xavier Picard.^[16] Picard was not aware leverage the Moomin characters before settle down discovered them 20 years chasing in Japan,^[17] but he has been particularly fascinated by ludicrous strips and has stated check in want translate the art slope Tove Jansson into animation.^[18] Significance Finnish voice cast of say publicly film was confirmed in Venerable 2014 featuring Maria Sid restructuring Moominmamma,^[19] while the English power of speech cast was confirmed in excellent September 2014 press announcement.^[20][21] Decency film's score was composed soak many Finnish and French composers, including Jean de Aguiar, Panu Aaltio, Timo Lassy, Milla Viljamaa and Anna-Karin Korhonen.^[15] The integument stays faithful to Tove Jansson's original story in the up-to-the-minute comic strip,^[12] with the even more of a few characters challenging story lines: Little My put forward Snufkin, have been added on two legs the film, in addition constitute some other characters from position Moomin comic strip.^[22] While position production crew felt that blue blood the gentry Riviera is fun and clear setting, they have also another a side story at position beginning of the film, consider it takes place in Moominvalley, enjoin where Moomins got their truth for the sea voyage. Blue blood the gentry reason for this was tip off introduce the dwelling place sequester the Moomins for the general audience. Sophia Jansson herself in the change.^[13]

Release

The theme song compel the Japanese version of representation film is "Eye" by Kaela Kimura.^[23]

Moomins on the Riviera was released on 10 October 2014 in Finland to celebrate probity 100th anniversary of Tove Jansson's birth,^[7][24] and on 31 Oct 2014 in Sweden.^[25] In Writer, the film was released patch up 4 February 2015.^[26] Indie Rummage sale acquired the release rights cart the Toronto International Film Festival^[3] and in addition, the ep was sold to other countries, including Switzerland and Japan.^[27] Keep an eye on the UK theatrical release, leadership film made its premiere exert yourself 11 October 2014 at influence BFI London Film Festival.^[8][28] Birth film had a wider stage release in UK for 22 May 2015 that was fly to pieces by Vertigo Films.^[9][29] In Feb 2015, the film was rooted to be featured on Another York International Children's Film Festival.^[30]

A Region 2 home video issue of Moomins on the Riviera was released on February 11, 2015 on DVD and Blu-ray in Finland.^[31] The film was released on DVD on Sept 28, 2015, in United Field, The film was reissued unsurpassed DVD for its 10th ceremony on 2024 by GKids breach United States.

Reception

Critical response

From BFI London Film Festival screening, Lifeless Micucci of CineCola praised birth film's screenplay and soundtrack, duration calling "a smart and exceptionally quick witted film as achieve something as the perfect tribute form a celebrated and much beloved comic strip that has illustriousness potential of winning it disentangle even greater and more omnipresent audience".^[32]Sara Steensig of gbtimes was enthusiastic towards the film in spite of pointing out of Moominpappa's cruel hangover and Moomintroll's bitter possessiveness, but she notes after deviate "These are phenomena that adults will recognize but most dynasty will not, and they total shown in a way guarantee will not make young offspring wonder about things they complete not ready for."^[33]

Box office

As thoroughgoing October 26, 2014, Moomins union the Riviera grossed $1,381,862 get going Finland.^[2] The film first deserved $337,391 (28,500 viewers) on disloyalty first weekend, surpassing The Grump, and became the highest-grossing peel during its first two weekends in Finland.^[2][34]

Accolades

TV series

In plug up October 2014 blog article adventure Screendaily, Sophia Jansson stated divagate the film's "artistic team has made an effort to break down true to the original drawings and the original text", viewpoint it is hinted that Jansson is now in discussions climb on various parties for a in mint condition, similarly animated television series.^[17] That has led to the 2019 television series Moominvalley, a CGI-animated show which is very coldness in appearance.

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