Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet (2014)
Directed by Roger Allers
Exiled artist and poet Mustafa embarks on a journey home with his housekeeper and her daughter; together the trio must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in Mustafa's words will incite rebellion.
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The film features the work of nine renowned animators, including Bill Plympton, Nina Paley (Sita Sings the Blues), and Tomm Moore (Secret of Kells), illustrating particular chapters, set into a frame story by Roger Allers, who supervised Disney’s The Lion King.
The film is directed by The Lion King's Roger Allers, who brought together top animators to create the visual sequences that accompany eight of Gibran's essays.
An exhilarating sense of visual imagination mostly compensates for the uneven structure of this animated adaptation of the new-age poetry of Lebanese essayist Kahlil Gibran from director Roger Allers (The Lion King).
Salma Hayek, as performer and producer, seems to have coaxed The Prophet – oft considered one of literature’s many unfilmable works – to cinematic life, enlisting The Lion King director Roger Allers to pull a family-friendly plot out of a book that had none, and the strain is evident.
Written and directed by Roger Allers, whose past credits include such Disney classics as The Lion King and Aladdin, it’s a saccharine but at times surprisingly touching compendium of its own.
Director Robert Allers (The Lion King) and producer Salma Hayek-Pinault have reworked The Prophet as an animated feature set on the imaginary island of Orphalese.
This slow and somewhat stately cartoon reminds me of the recent animated version of Kahlil Gibran’s poetic novel “The Prophet,” a last-ditch attempt to capture the magic in a meditative, allegorical and philosophical book by using that most malleable art form — animation.