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3RD ANNUAL BENEFIT - Paul Grimault\'s The King and the Mockingbird, plus French scrumptious food & cocktail reception, and film activies for kids. Film subtitles will be performed live by Brooke Shields, Jeffrey Wright, Lauren Ambrose, Mario Cantone, and Scott Shepherd.
Join us for a special afternoon of film and food fun, with proceeds to benefit New York Int\'l Children\'s Film Festival. Film with live performance begins promptly at 3:00pm.
LE ROI ET L\'OISEAU
(THE KING AND THE MOCKINGBIRD)
Animation, France, 1980, 81 min
Don’t miss this rare special screening of Paul Grimault\'s gloriously imaginative animated masterwork, based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep, with subtitles performed live by NYICFF special guests. A pompous, cross-eyed ruler named King Charles V + III = VIII + VIII = XVI is in love with a painting of a shepherdess. But she has eyes for the dashing young chimney sweep in the next painting over - and so the two decide to elope, stepping out of their frames and into Grimault\'s endlessly inventive and bizarre castle town, where elevators are beetles attached to telescoping antennas, buildings hang like barnacles from gargantuan Roman pillars, the King gives chase in a throne-turned bumper car, and a towering blue robot watches over all.
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