Dilili in Paris (2018) on Netflix

PG20181h 35mAdventure Animation Family

In Belle Époque Paris, Dilili, a little Kanak girl, meets Orel, a scooter driver. On his delivery rounds she hears of girls kidnapped across the city and decides to investigate.

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Netflix3.4/5
IMDb6.8/101,344 votes
Rotten Tomatoes67%

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Plot summary

Dilili is a little girl of Kanak and European ancestry, part of a Kanak village that stands in a public garden in Paris during the Belle Époque. Educated by Madame Michel and taught good manners by a countess after her arrival in Paris, she meets Orel, a scooter driver who slips into the enclosure to find her. He offers to take her around Paris while he makes his deliveries, and she rides through the streets and squares of the city, meeting Marie Curie, the singer Emma Calvé and the writer Marcel Proust along the way. Newspaper sellers announce that little girls are being kidnapped again and again by a network signing itself Male-Masters, and Dilili decides to investigate.

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Michel Ocelot said the film grew from two separate ideas: a work set in Paris, and one about male suppression and abuse of women and girls. He merged them into a Belle Époque story set around 1900, a decade that saw several historical firsts for women in France.
Ocelot photographed surviving Paris structures, including the Palais Garnier, Bouillon Racine, Maxim's and the sewers, over four years, and used objects from museums such as the Musée d'Orsay and Musée Rodin directly as two-dimensional elements or texture maps rather than as reference material.
The fabric and hair of the 3D models are rendered as solid colours with no shading, continuing the style of Ocelot's Azur & Asmar, while the characters' bodies use a tracing effect developed from his earlier Kirikou and the Men and Women.