Paddington in Peru

Dougal Wilson: Paddington in Peru (CA 2024).

Paddington au Pérou / Paddington seikkailee / Paddington i Peru.

    GB/FR/JP/US 2024. Sociétés de production : StudioCanal, Columbia Pictures, Stage 6 Films, Kinoshita Group et Marmalade Pictures. Production : David Heyman, Rosie Alison, Rob Silva et Claudia Roca Bravo. Production déléguée : Camilia Celis, Jeffrey Clifford, Ron Halpern, Dan MacRae, Anna Marsh, Tim Wellspring et Paul King

    Réalisation : Dougal Wilson

Scénario : Mark Burton, Jon Foster et James Lamont, d'après une histoire de Paul King, Simon Farnaby et Mark Burton et d'après le personnage crée par Michael Bond

Photographie : Erik Wilson. Format : couleur — 2,35:1

Décors : Cathy Cosgrove

Costumes : Charlotte Walter

VFX : Framestore

Musique : Dario Marianelli

Soundtrack: – Manon, Act 2: "Il sogno" (Jules Massenet, Henri Meilhac, Philippe Gille) perf. Enrico Caruso – Scott Joplin: "The Entertainer" perf. Antonio Banderas – Gioachino Rossini: Wilhelm Tell overture – Johann Strauss: The Blue Danube – "Onward Christian Soldiers" (Sabine Baring-Gould, Arthur Sullivan).

Montage : Úna Ní Dhonghaíle

    Distribution

Ben Whishaw (VF : Guillaume Gallienne) : Paddington Brown (voix)

Hugh Bonneville (VF : Patrick Bonnel ; VQ : Alain Zouvi) : Henry Brown

Emily Mortimer (VF : Rafaèle Moutier) : Mary Brown[3]

Madeleine Harris (en) (VF : Camille Timmerman) : Judy Brown

Samuel Joslin (VF : Jules Timmerman) : Jonathan Brown

Julie Walters (VF : Françoise Vallon ; VQ : Johanne Léveillé) : Mme Bird

Jim Broadbent (VF : Jean-Claude Donda) : Samuel Gruber

Olivia Colman (VF : Julie Dumas (dialogues) / Rachel Pignot (chants)) : la mère supérieure

Imelda Staunton (VF : Marie-Martine ; VQ : Lisette Dufour) : Tante Lucy (voix)

Antonio Banderas (VF : Bernard Gabay ; VQ : Manuel Tadros) : Hunter Cabot

Carla Tous (VF : Laure Filiu) : Gina Cabot

Hayley Atwell : Madison

Joel Fry : Joe le postier

Sanjeev Bhaskar : Dr Jafri

Robbie Gee : M. Barnes

Ben Miller : le colonel Lancaster

Jessica Hynes : Miss Kitts

Simon Farnaby : Barry le steward

Ella Bruccoleri : Rosita la nonne

Hugh Grant (VF : Thibault de Montalembert) : Phoenix Buchanan (caméo non crédité)

    Loc: – England – Peru (Machu Picchu) – Colombia (El Prado River, Prado Reservoir).

    Durée : 106 minutes

Langue originale : anglais

Genre : aventure, comédie, famille

Série  Paddington 2  (2017)

    Sociétés de distribution : StudioCanal (Royaume-Uni et France), Sony Pictures Releasing (États-Unis), Kino Films (Japon)

    Dates de sortie :

Royaume-Uni : 8 novembre 2024

Finlande : 24 janvier 2025

France : 5 février 2025

États-Unis : 14 février 2025

Japon : 9 mai 2025

    Vu en VF samedi, le 5 avril 2025 UGC Ciné Cité Les Halles, Salle 37, Pl. de la Rotonde Forum des Halles, accès Porte du Jour, M° Les Halles, Ligne 4, Paris 1er

Wikipedia: "Paddington in Peru is a 2024 live-action animated adventure comedy film directed by Dougal Wilson and written by Mark Burton, Jon Foster, and James Lamont. It is the third installment in the Paddington film series, which are based on the Paddington stories by Michael Bond. The film stars Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas and Ben Whishaw as the voice of Paddington. The film sees the Brown family travelling through the Peruvian jungle to find Paddington's aunt Lucy."

Synopsis from Wikipedia: "Paddington receives a letter from the Home for Retired Bears in Peru, informing him that Aunt Lucy deeply misses him and is acting strangely, so Paddington and the Browns decide to go to Peru to visit her. Upon arriving in Peru, the Browns learn from the Reverend Mother that Aunt Lucy has gone missing in the jungle, leaving behind only her glasses and her bracelet. Paddington finds a map in Aunt Lucy's cabin indicating they should start their search at a place called Rumi Rock; Mrs. Bird and the Reverend Mother stay behind and the Reverend Mother gives Mrs. Brown a pendant for good luck."

"The Browns look to hire a boat to travel down the river, meeting riverboat captain Hunter Cabot and his daughter Gina. Hunter notices Paddington's bracelet and informs the family of the lost city of El Dorado, a mythical place that is said to contain the gold offered by ancient Peruvians to the jungle spirits; travellers in search of El Dorado typically begin their searches at Rumi Rock, but do not return alive. Hunter is driven by the ghosts of his ancestors to find gold at any cost and wishes to hijack the trip to find El Dorado himself; he and Gina argue about continuing the journey, with Gina wanting him to turn back. In response, Hunter throws Gina off, but then falls overboard himself, causing the boat to shipwreck."

"Paddington gets separated from the family and stumbles upon Rumi Rock, where Hunter is waiting for him. Following roars that Paddington believes are calls and responses from himself and Lucy, Hunter and Paddington duly set off in search of El Dorado and Aunt Lucy. Gina locates the Browns and explains her father's motivations and family history; they set out to find Paddington and save him from Hunter. Mrs. Bird grows suspicious of the Reverend Mother and discovers a secret room where she reveals that the pendant she gave to Mrs. Brown is actually a tracker. Now knowing their location, Mrs. Bird and the Reverend Mother fly in with a plane to rescue the Browns."

"After reaching the summit of an Incan fort, which contains a coin slot for an emblem on Paddington's bracelet, Hunter attacks and chases Paddington, but the Browns arrive just in time to save him. The Reverend Mother reveals herself as Clarissa Cabot, Hunter's long lost cousin who was thought to be deceased, also wishing to find El Dorado. Clarissa reveals that she staged Aunt Lucy's disappearance to entice Paddington to come to Peru. She then holds the Browns and Gina at gunpoint, but Hunter intervenes by incapacitating Clarissa, thus removing his visions of his ancestors. The Browns use Paddington's bracelet to enter El Dorado. They find Aunt Lucy, who explains that El Dorado is an orangery where Paddington was born and that her bracelet was originally Paddington's when she found him, used by the bears of El Dorado. Paddington bonds with the other bears making marmalade, but chooses to return to London with the Browns."

"In the aftermath, Hunter reconciles with Gina and gives up his obsession for gold, Clarissa is sent to the North Pole to become a real nun and work at the Home for Retired Polar Bears, much to her dismay, and several El Dorado bears visit Paddington in London and are named after other London rail stations. Paddington and the bears visit Phoenix Buchanan in prison, where Buchanan, believing that he will soon be released, plans a production of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" starring the El Dorado bears."

AA: Paddington in Peru is my introduction to the Paddington phenomenon. Michael Bond launched his beloved bear character in 1958, and he has by now appeared in 29 books and several television adaptations as well as a film series in which animated characters are merged with live action footage. The films so far are Paddington (GB 2014), Paddington 2 (GB 2017) and Paddington in Peru (GB 2024). They belong to the greatest hits of the cinema, and it is easy to see why.

Myself, I am instantly enthusiastic. Typically for a Finn, bear is my totem animal. My favourite toy as a child was a teddy bear. I love Winnie the Pooh, and Baloo is my favourite in the Jungle Book. Valtteri Mulkahainen the bear specialist is a favourite photographer of mine. Ivan Shishkin's Morning in a Pine Forest / Утро в сосновом лесу (RU 1889, in the Tretyakov Gallery) is one of my favourite paintings. I liked very much Jean-Jacques Annaud's L'Ours / The Bear (FR 1988) based on James Oliver Curwood's novel The Grizzly King (US 1916) which I read as a boy in a Finnish translation called Kalliovuorten kuningas [The King of the Rockies].

Paddington in Peru is perfection in all departments. It looks gorgeous, and there is a wealth of inventions, awesome visions and witty details. The animation is state of the art. Ever-changing ideas flash by so fast that nothing grows to fulfillment. More is more.

The performances are uneven. Paddington is engaging, as well as the members of the Brown family. But Olivia Colman and Antonio Banderas fail to convince as villains. I saw the film in French, but I don't think that was a factor.

We visit the real Machu Picchu in Peru and the real El Prado River in Colombia in glorious cinematographic detail.

The most stunningly fantastic new element in Paddington in Peru is the amazing photorealism of the CGI animation. I need to learn about the technology how this has been achieved.

I am usually reserved about photorealistic CGI animation.

I love animation that is stylized and I love regular live action, but previously I have not been impressed by photorealistic animation, with exceptions. To my surprise I have liked James Cameron's Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water.

Paddington in Peru is my introduction to a new frontier in animation – and cinema in general.