When asked to write a memoir, Pagnol simply can’t do it – not without the help of hope and optimism personified in the figure of young Marcel.
Like most biopics, the animation pays tribute to its subject, making Pagnol a man at ease with the times, embracing the medium of cinema when his theatre colleagues were too sceptical to try.
The director of The Triplets of Belleville dons rose-tinted spectacles.