La luna (2012)
Directed by Enrico Casarosa
A young boy comes of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the boy as he discovers his family's most unusual line of work. Should he follow the example of his Papa, or his Grandpa? Will he be able to find his own way in the midst of their conflicting opinions and timeworn traditions?
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But it would be unfair to leave out how Casarosa also utilizes the fantastical concepts of his short film, La Luna , to make Luca feel like a co-production between Pixar and Studio Ghibli, specially when it comes to its experimental, magical concepts and heightened, stylistic world where just about every possible color is used to its fullest extent onscreen.
With direction from Enrico Casarosa, who certainly knows the territory and was Oscar-nominated for the 2011 Pixar animated short La Luna , and a fun script from Mike Jones, this all plays out beautifully, aided by the gorgeous production pesign (right down to the town movie theater’s posters of Roman Holiday ).
The simpler animation is reminiscent of his heartwarming 2011 short, La Luna, but captures a certain carefree spirit.
When Luca — which was directed by Enrico Casarosa (of the short La Luna ) and written by Jesse Andrews and Mike Jones — was announced, the internet was quick to call out parallels between this film and Call Me by Your Name.
The filmmakers’ most exquisite visual creation here is Portorosso, a fictional village on the Italian Riviera presumably not far from Genoa, Casarosa’s birth city, which inspired his 2011 Pixar short, “La Luna.”
Director Casarosa may have foregone the wonders of respite and intimacy he applied in the La Luna short, but the vibrancy and electricity — from Daniela Strijleva’s lived-in designs and Dan Romer’s heartfelt strumming — blend right in with details allowing Portorosso to be as much a postcard-primed reverie as an innocent memory (Casarosa said the Luca-Alberto friendship is inspired by his).
P.S. Brave is preceded by “La Luna,” a typically Pixar-y exercise in short-form wordless whimsy and wonder that echoes some of the main feature’s themes and ends with what could be read as a sly inversion of a DreamWorks hallmark.
"Brave" has been paired with one of Pixar's lesser shorts, 2011 Oscar nominee "La Luna," with which it shares a simple story of traditions passed through generations.
As an added treat, "Brave" is preceded by Enrico Casarosa's Oscar-nominated short, "La luna," adding seven minutes to the running time of Pixar's shortest feature since "Monsters, Inc."
The short film that accompanies the feature, Enrico Casarosa’s beguiling La Luna, suggests that Pixar’s talent pool hasn’t run dry.
The animated short before " Brave ," " La Luna ," tapped into that better than " Brave " did and it was only seven minutes long.