It’s an end clap which resonates dangerously with European producers who are faced with a shrinking market share in cinemas, where the abundant animation offering is dominated by American super productions whose financial resources (from the filmmaking stage through to marketing) are on an entirely different level to those enjoyed by European feature films. But the huge gap between ambitions when it came to Mattotti’s work (boasting a budget of almost €12m) and the movie’s overall box-office performance (233,000 admissions in France and less than 400,000 worldwide) ultimately forced pen to paper on Prima Linea’s death warrant. Unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival 2019 in the Un Certain Regard line-up, the film rounds off a back-catalogue of films which includes the likes of Zarafa, Wolfy, The Incredible Secret, Fear(s) of the Dark, not to mention The Red Turtle which was executively produced by the firm. Founded in 1995 by Valérie Schermann and Christophe Jankovic, Prima Linea has gone out on a high from a creative point of view with The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily by Italy’s Lorenzo Mattotti.
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