Gorgeous and mesmerizing, “Azur & Asmar” eschews computer-generated imagery to render a flat, storybook-style animation that never stops delighting with its ornamental detail, range of color and ...

"Azur & Asmar" reps family entertainment so gloriously bright, auds with sensitive eyes may need shades. Michel Ocelot creates an original fairy tale about two young men on a quest to find an ...

Animated fairy tale. Featuring the voices of Steven Kynman, Nigel Lambert and Suzanna Nour. Directed by Michel Ocelot. (PG. 99 minutes. At the Opera Plaza Cinema in San Francisco.) Parents who don't ...

With its delicate fairy-tale bones and layer of politically conscious muscle, Azur & Asmar is a sleek yet slightly unwieldy animal. The fourth animated feature from French director Michel Ocelot, Azur ...

Is it too early to announce the most beautiful film of 2009? Two days into the new year, it’s hard to imagine a more transporting cinematic experience coming our way than “Azur & Asmar,” an animated ...

Viewers used to the increasing fluidity and visual depth of Hollywood CGI may have trouble getting used to the films of French animator Michel Ocelot, whose features (Kirikou And The Sorceress, ...

GKIDS, producer of NY International Children’s Film Festival, present “Azur & Asmar” at the Lyric Cinema in Fort Collins on April 3. From acclaimed director Michel Ocelot and presented by the ...

The first images in Michel Ocelot's captivating animated feature "Azur & Asmar" show an attractive Arab servant named Jenane nursing a male infant whose skin looks chalky white against her comforting ...

Set in the Middle Ages, Azur and Asmar is the story of two boys raised as brothers. Blonde, blue-eyed, white skinned Azur and black-haired, brown-eyed, dark-skinned Asmar are lovingly cared for by ...