Kirikou and the Sorceress
by Michel Ocelot
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Actor: Awa Sene Sarr, Doudou Gueye Thiaw, Maimouna N'Diaye, Robert Liensol, William NadylamDirector: Michel Ocelot
Writer: Michel Ocelot
Producer: Arlette Zylberberg
Producer: B?n?dicte Galup
Producer: Didier Brunner
Producer: Jacques Vercruyssen
Producer: Paul Thiltges
Producer: Sara Zentilin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown; French (Original Language), Unknown; English (Subtitled)
Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 74 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Facets
DVD Reviews of Kirikou and the Sorceress
DVD Review: Review from 9-yr-old movie critic who met director Ocelot March 09, amazing film!
Summary: 5 Stars
The French Director Michel Ocelot invited me to meet and interview him in San Francisco on March 4, 2009, when his new movie "Azur & Asmar" opened that week in SF. He enjoyed reading my published review of "Azur & Asmar" (the best animated movie I've ever watched!). I attended the screening of his earlier film "Kirikou and the Sorceress" and interviewed him after the screening. Meeting director Ocelot is an experience of a lifetime!
You can check out my photos with director Michel Ocelot and all my movie reviews here:
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Movie Review: Kirikou and the Sorceress by Perry S. Chen (9 years old)
The movie "Kirikou and the Sorceress" is a monumental journey of an infant boy in a small African village, which is terrorized by Karaba the Sorceress. It is a story of love, courage, perseverance, and heroism.
The Sorceress is taking away the villagers' jewels and is thought to eat the men who dare to fight her. She lives in a temple guarded by robots called "fetishes."
In the village, an expecting young mother has a baby who is impatient to be born in her womb. The mother said: "A baby who can talk to his mother in her stomach can give birth to himself." Then the baby did crawl out of the mother's womb, wash himself, and name himself "Kirikou." He finds out that his uncle is going to fight Karaba the Sorceress.
Kirikou is fast and agile. In a flash, he gets a hat and runs to his uncle who puts on the hat and then the hat talks! It is Kirikou! He helps the uncle attack and defend himself from the fetishes. Karaba orders the fetish to get the hat that called him "Uncle", but the hat runs away!
The village children also fall prey to the Sorceress. They were captured by a Karaba's dugout and a walking tree. But Kirikou thwarted the Sorceress's attempts with wisdom and courage.
Kirikou has a persistent question: Why is the Sorceress evil? There is only one man who knows the answer: Kirikou's grandfather, the wise man of the mountains. Kirikou travels through a narrow tunnel underneath Karaba's temple to meet his grandfather. Along the way, Kirikou makes friends with a family of squirrels whom he saved from a ravenous skunk. The squirrels give him food and presents.
To escape from the piercing glare of the watchful "look-out fetish," Kirikou dresses up as a bird. But a real bird bigger than him tries to peck his feathers off, revealing a clump of naked skin! The fetish is very intrigued. The squirrels see their friend in peril, so they defended Kirikou by aggressively baring their teeth, arching their backs, and thrashing their tails to the big bird. The fetish would have been suspicious if it saw a bird clinging to another bird with its wings!
Kirikou finally got to his grandpa's mountain paradise. He told Kirikou secrets about Karaba the Sorceress and an animal drinking up the water from the cursed spring. It is a creature warped by greed.
With one magical act, Kirokou drains Karabar's powers and something magical happens to him too!!!
This movie is truly SPECIAL because I got to meet the one-of-a-kind Director Michel Ocelot at the screening. I got to interview him in San Francisco! Monsieur Ocelot is a very enchanting man and I would love to learn more about him and his childhood in Africa. Meeting him is truly a MAGICAL experience!
All the village women in the movie were dressed in the African traditional way with a loincloth and bare torso. And young children stayed without clothes, a natural thing to do, as the temperature was high. Monsieur Ocelot shared the stories behind the movie release: None of the American distributors wanted to release the movie. "They would have if I had put bras and pants everywhere, and ruining the honesty of this African tradition," said Monsieur Ocelot during the audience Q&A session.
I saw Monsieur Ocelot's new movie "Azur & Asmar" in Feb 09, and found many similarities and differences when comparing and contrasting the two movies. In "Azur & Asmar", the main characters are two boys of different race. In "Kirikou and the Sorceress", the character is a squirrel-sized boy. Azur & Asmar both want to liberate the Djinn Fairy, while Kirikou just wants to help get rid of the evil from the Sorceress. The setting in Azur & Asmar is an Arabian land, while the setting for Kirikou is an African village.
Both movies are enchanting and magical, and both have a quest. All key characters are brave and clever. You also need to, in both movies, enter many doors before you succeed. I noticed that both movies have a wise old man, and last, they both have responsible, loving, and nurturing mothers.
In "Kirikou and the Sorceress," small has small's advantages. But most of all, courage, perseverance, and wisdom are the keys to the magic door of success.
DVD Review: Great!
Summary: 5 Stars
Kirikou and the Sorceress is the animated tale of a remarkable newborn baby boy (Kirikou) who is able to save his West African village from a number scourges using his wits, his wit and his amazing running speed. Watch it for the beautiful animation, bold color palette, exciting story, and accurate depictions of West African plants and wildlife. Be cautious if you are offended by nudity, as the characters are traditional West Africans depicted in their natural milieu. With all the adventure, excitement and humor, the best parts come when Kirikou briefly stops saving the world to curl up like the infant he really is to take a nap on a blanket by his mother who is pounding grain, or to curl up on the welcoming lap of his grandfather. I love this movie.DVD Review: Unique and Stunning African Fairy Tale
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this animated film during French Class (it actually was originally released in French in 1998, called "Kirikou et La Sorci?re), and really enjoyed it!
The evil sorceress Karaba has devastated an African village: She eats their men, takes their gold, dries up their spring and burns their houses. Their savior is Kirikou, a precocious child who speaks in the womb, and, after many adventures, saves both the village as well as the sorceress.
The animation, with bright vibrant colors, is stunning (rivals Disney). The story is fun and unique: it is more complex than most fairly tales. Good and evil are not easily distinguished - and things are not as they first seem.
Kirkou is ultimately victorious not because of brawn, or even brains (although has an abundance of both), but because he is willing to continually ask questions, and listen to answers in order get at the real source of problems. Kirikou's key question in the film is "why is Karaba evil" - and discovering the source of her evil and undoing it is what leads to the happy ending.
All in all, a very, very enjoyable and thoughtful movie.
Note - After watching this film, I'm wondering why Cinderella and Snow White didn't ask questions such as "why are our step-mothers evil?" May have led to an even happier ending - for all...
DVD Review: excellent african anima
Summary: 4 Stars
This was an excellent DVD and would show it to my children, but due to the nudity I would hesitate showing it to other children without parents concent.DVD Review: Kirikou and the Sorceress
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent!!! I have watched this many many times and can watch this many more times. Adults as well as children are captivated by Kirikou and the Sorceress.
Description of Kirikou and the Sorceress
This animated film exquisitely recounts the tale of tiny Kirikou -- a clever, courageous little boy born in an African village in which Karaba the Sorceress has placed a terrible curse -- as he sets out on a quest to free his village of the curse and find out the secret of why Karaba is so wicked. Kirikou depicts a precocious newborn infant who battles ignorance, and so-called evil, with endearing perseverance. This film speaks to the child within us all who yearns to express and defend the best in others and ourselves. Kirikou's stunning visuals are accented by a traditional music soundtrack by African music giant Youssou N' Dour.Feature Films DVDs
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