, in which the ambition of the Emeryville-based animation house astounds in ways it hasn’t quite achieved in years. Moments of abstract expression that feel entirely unique to its new film, and yet wholly in keeping with the DNA that has made Pixar the standard bearer for family animation. The movie, which makes its world premiere bow this evening at a socially distanced London Film Festival screening, tackles existential themes without ever disregarding its core, family audience.
When he’s finally afforded an opportunity to play with the legendary jazz musician Dorothea Williams , his excitement gets the better of him and he falls down an open manhole cover to his apparent death. Soon, he finds his soul on an escalator to The Great Beyond, destined to shuffle his mortal coil. Desperate for another chance, he backtracks into The Great Before, where he’s assumed to be a mentor and is paired up with a sparkless soul, 22 , who has resisted every attempt to send her to Earth.
It doesn’t get any less complicated from there, but as it luxuriates in these imagined realms which call to mind the work of Studio Ghibli and thatgamecompany’s breathtaking videogame, the movie draws humor and invention in abstraction which feels downright subversive for family animation. Certainly, it will feel recognizable to those who have seen Docter’s prior film,, and may, indeed, be some kind of spiritual continuation.
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