Miaou...
A Cat in Paris
Meow...
http://www.catinparis.com/
Thank you CatinParis.com!!
my fav view of Paris...rooftop view, anywhere, of Eiffel Tower?!
Animated Movie Trailer...
http://youtu.be/H7e07c52VWg
Internet Movie Database...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1673702/
"In Paris, a cat who lives a secret life as a cat burglar's aide must come to the rescue of Zoe, the little girl he lives with, after she falls into a gangster's clutches."
There's a Wiki page even...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cat_in_Paris
"The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Along with Chico and Rita, it became one of two foreign-language films nominated for Best Animated Feature in one year, an Academy first that many observers considered a surprise. The film has also received a nomination for the Cesar Award for Best Animated Film in 2011."
The New York Times Movies Review...
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/movies/a-cat-in-paris-the-animated-french-film.html?_r=0
Titled...
"Ignoring Laws of Physics as they Run Across Roofs"
my note:
(Rooftops in Paris - aren't they already 'magical') OK--maybe true, but it's animated so you can 'believe' & it's a cat, the ones with nine lives so there...
reviewer wrapped up with this...
"As are adults, since there is very little of the noisy, sentimental pandering that is too often a feature of kid-targeted entertainment nowadays. This movie is graceful, subtle and sure-footed, much as its English title implies."
Rotten Tomatoes Review...
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_cat_in_paris/
The English Movie Poster...
read here on this review that...
Movie DVD is out in October 2012 - yeah - will be buying this one, for me (but thankfully I have 2 G-Baby Girls as an excuse?!)
Movieline Review by Stephanie Zacharek...
http://movieline.com/2012/05/31/review-a-cat-in-paris/
note: it was here I read that there are 2 versions of the movie - whad - an English version, aka dubbed & then there is the original French version with English subtitles (which is how I saw it, which is how you should see a film--in it's orig language?!)
Facebook page for Cane Fire Film Series - where this w/e they played A Cat in Paris...
http://www.facebook.com/CaneFireFilmSeries
Zvents listing for the Cane Fire Film Series Screening in Lafayette, LA at the LITE Center...
http://www.zvents.com/lafayette_la/events/show/275159785-screening-a-cat-in-paris
as he's done with all the poor little lizards in the summer (but I'll not give the mystery away)
photo credit: borrowed from the splog/blog below...
Commentary: Processing Onward (about A Cat in Paris)
from the artists working at Michael Sporn Animation, Inc...
http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=3032
*note: tomorrow/Monday I will write more about when I went to see this movie Saturday night at 7:30pm at the LITE center in Lafayette, LA - this as a hurricane pounces (meow) on FL, then LA--btw, where I am living right now...
Poster - Film Affinity.com - Image Gallery: A Cat in Paris
Wait--it was Monday when I was typing the above around 2am...coffee, yes I love you but...sleep gets in the way...
This is 'not' a review...
A Cat in Paris is the English name for the movie, which when it started I saw the French title Une Vie De Chat - am guessing that's more like A Life of a Cat...in other countries I've lived when they would translate the titles to something totally different that didn't really ring true in it's original language it would bother me to irritation (as in most cases it was from English to Spanish or English to Arabic or English to Norwegian - as those happen to be the 3 foreign countries I've lived in that involved translations...)
yet another poster image - folks are having lots of fun with this & the cat...
from Theiapolis.com
But as the local powers that be have brought this original movie in French to Lafayette, LA with English subtitles then I'm OK with that--because I have no desire to watch the English version with dubbed voices, even in animated characters, this still bugs me...in the original there is a chemistry of details that just works as it's suppose to work, as those that made the movie wanted it to work - voices & all, so I try very hard to watch original versions of movies because of this (or when they remake the entire movie in another country than the original, that also bugs me to no end & I often refuse to watch it ie The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...but maybe that's just me & nobody else has a prob with that--it's one thing if the movie is a 100 yrs old maybe, but not a current movie that Hollywood or others decided to redo to re-reap rewards...I don't contribute--there, end of rant...)
A Cat in Paris - sleeping cat...
http://freeplaymovies.com/a-cat-in-paris-2012.html
(note: you can, it says, watch the movie online here & in HD, hmmm...I feel naughty, I cannot do it & I will not pay to get into this after the Free Spell is over--but I paid for a real ticket already to watch it at the LITE Center, so I'll wait until it's release in October...maybe...no, I will...but others of you may not be as strong willed as I am...carry on...)
There is so much quirk & fun & a story actually in this animated movie that adults can find it as interesting as the kids can find it fun--the audience laughed quite a bit, so am guessing they enjoyed it... that some of the audience were French Immersion students that got given free tickets from a donation that I missed the name of was even more fun - as you knew they could understand the French & only those of us language challenged ones in the audience had to read subtitles...which if everything is done well then you don't notice that you've been reading the whole time, as in hours?!
A Cat in Paris movie photo still from a review on Ireland.com...
http://www.ireland.com/leisure/film/a-cat-in-paris/648486
(note: a fav scene with the cat in Paris, as they do in real life, coming to bring it's beloved owner a prize--in this case a lizard...now later you'll have 2 views of what folks may think of this, one from her mom & another from the nanny--who may or may not be a bad guy or bad girl but I loved her reaction to this kitty kat lizard gift when the little girl shows it to her...)
The movie was intro'd in both English & French, by a seemingly beloved French Immersion Teacher from I miss what school--back in the day it use to only be Prarie Elementary that did this...hearing him speak French after the English I knew he was 'not' just repeating what was spoken - this use to make me feel bad when I would try so hard to learn a foreign language & was just left out unless they started talking slow 'baby talk' to me...and sure enough it still makes me feel bad that I could just not conquer another language, though I love hearing them & love visiting many a country that speaks many of them as well...especially France, especially Paris & so especially French?! Is there Adult French Immersion...
Before the movie everyone was charged up, not just with waiting & Waiting--past the 7:30pm starting time...just like in a foreign country, as there are definitely differences in what time means to each & every one of them...we were also given a pre-show sweet treat from Indulge--where I have been to their shop for a coffee & a chocolate & then a chocolate treat I'm sure too, but this time they had made - for the kids I think - marshmallow mice on a stick covered in sweet icing or in my case it was sweet as I don't have kid tastebuds anylonger...but free water cooler of lemonade helped cut that sugar some, nothing like having the sweet with the sour?!
Link to Indulge Sweet Spot in PARC Lafayette...
http://indulgesweetspot.com/
note: across the street from River Ranch I tell folks...on the backside where the park/fountain is - only if you go for the coffee it's the same coffee that they serve at Johnston Street Java, so don't expect different blends or different Baristas either...really it's all about the chocolates & pastries there or that's the feeling I get - with so much space inside their 'sweet spot' that you wonder when's the big party they're going to be catering showing up...I did though enjoy the fun/luxury of the corner white sofa and chairs with the little end table rather than the small metal round tables like an old ice cream parlor might have - but this has all been awhile as I went when they were first open to help support the local cause (as I do not need too many sweet treat temptations in my life any more--when they gave me a free one I knew I was in trouble?!) All in all it would be a fine place to go make a lovely chocolates or pastry gift basket...really it was a surprise to see them bring their sweet treats out for this animated film, so don't know what the connection was--French maybe? or the Cane Fire Film folks know somebody at the shop...still it was sweet from a sweet spot, so thank you for the little marshmallow mice Indulge (even if I'm not a kid, as that old saying goes we're all kids at heart?!)
About marshmallows...
Marshmallows - typical US brand - Jet-Puffed by Kraft...
Photo Credit - found on their Facebook page, under product photos...
http://www.facebook.com/jetpuffed
I could not find a photo going thru a bunch of Google Images of a marshmallow on a stick that was decorated with a little mouse (or cat) face =^-^= in blue - so forget it...I am also not going to attempt to recreate one either, as I really don't 'love' marshmallows enough to do so...
It is - I know this - possible to also make Marshmallows from scratch, like a cake...but again--I'm not going there & I doubt the Sweet Shop did either for 25-50-100 of 'em...
Look Bon Appetit Magazine/online even can tell you how-to make Marshmallows, at home...
http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/2008/07/homemade_marshmallows
I give up--you cannot copy a photo of a homemade marshmallow, it's ridiculous...
(everybody is so _fill in the blank_ proud of their recipes that you can't copy the photos of these creations it seems...)
Distracted by Marsh - a - mallows, as well as a Hurricane headed our way - am thinking maybe I should of gotten a bag of Marshmallows/Jet-Puffed possibly for our Hurricane Prep Box...next hurricane I guess, as there is always another one a comin' sometime during Hurricane Season every year or tis true in the South/Southern Louisiana...
Wait--I didn't give up, I found a photo afterall...of my friends homemade marshmallows...
so you see--these don't look right, they're not all perfect little (commercial) puffs
am not saying they don't taste just as marshmallow-ly (again not my fav taste)
it's just you 'can' tell the difference, so am guessing these were not the marshmallows on the stick that we had for a sweet treat from the sweet shop here in town at the Une Vie De Chat/A Cat in Paris
(note: photo credit: Fonda--Thank You Very Much or I should say: Tusen Takk?!)
OK--back to Topic--A Cat in Paris...
Link to GKids.TV...
http://www.gkids.tv/index2.cfm
note: from A Cat in Paris Facebook page thru Mail Chimp--you can register for a newsletter & receive free stickers from GKids.TV - or this is what I'm hoping will happen, otherwise this little kid in me will be stomping & yelling (obsenities) so they best do what they promised?!
this poster image from A Cat in Paris Facebook page - when they received 2,000 likes!!
J'adore ce chat?! (btw thanks Google Translate for that) :o)
note: am reading that October 9, 2012 the movie will be released on DVD/BluRay & such...
(warning: everyone on my 'I've been good list' will be getting one of these for Christmas!)
Free Coloring Page from OnColoring.com of A Cat in Paris - Nico & Zoe & Cat across the rooftops (of Paris) - from their Movie Coloring Book Section...
Link to the webpage to find this one that you can color online...
http://www.oncoloring.com/a-cat-in-paris-nico-and-zoe-and-the-cat-across-the-rooftops-coloring-page_7895.html
note: how cute is that, I never knew there were such webpages...I've got G-Baby Girls who love to color & what a Fab activity to keep them busy at Mooma's house when visiting (you know--once in a blue moon?!)
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