Title | ALINE |
Brand | WES ANDERSON - SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES |
Product/Service | THE FRENCH DESPATCH |
Category |
A07. Use of Licensed / Adapted Music |
Entrant
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WETRANSFER Amsterdam, UNITED KINGDOM
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Idea Creation
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AMERICAN EMPRICIAL PICTURES New York, USA
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Production
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OPAL FILMS Paris, FRANCE
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Additional Company
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WETRANSFER Amsterdam, UNITED KINGDOM
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Credits
Jarvis Cocker |
Jarvis Cocker |
Singer |
Javi Aznarez |
Javi Aznarez |
Illustrator & Animation |
Wes Anderson |
Wes Anderson |
Director |
Octavia Peissel |
Octavia Peissel |
Producer |
Arnau Sola |
Arnau Sola |
Animation Supervisor & Lead Animator & Lead Compositor |
Fernando Abaca |
Fernando Abaca |
Animator |
Libardo Bohorquez |
Libardo Bohorquez |
Animator |
Toni Sala |
Toni Sala |
Animator |
Julia Olivella |
Julia Olivella |
Colour Artist |
Miguel Angel Canillas |
Miguel Angel Canillas |
Colour Artist |
Alex Roca |
Alex Roca |
Post Production & Compositing |
Write a short summary of what happens in the film
The video features Jarvis Cocker as Tip-Top, taking us on a journey through Ennui-sur-Blasé. Along the way we meet the characters of the film and catch glimpses of the plot. We watch as Tip-Top cheerfully uses a floating corpse in a canal as a stepping stone, or dances past Tilda Swinton observing some elderly French gentlemen play pétanque. We climb up and up through the town with the boulangerie delivery vans in a way that seems to move through storeys without ever breaking the shot.
Cultural / Context information for the jury
As the world waited for the release of The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson gathered a small team together to make his first-ever music video to celebrate the feature film’s theme song, Aline.
As the film is made in homage to The New Yorker, the artist’s style needed to possess a faint whiff of the magazine’s aesthetic values.
Tell the jury about the choice of music track.
Wes asked Jarvis if he would cover one of his favourite songs, a mournful 1965 French hit called Aline, by the late, great Christophe, who inspired the character of Tip-Top. It turns out that Wes once had a run-in with Christophe himself. “The way I’ve heard it,” Jarvis explains, “[Wes] first heard the song when he was at a dinner in Paris and was sat next to this guy he didn’t know...then at some point the guy was called away and played that song at a piano...it was Christophe himself.”