A TOWN CALLED PANIC
Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar (Belgium, 2009)
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WINNER - BEST ANIMATED FILM
2009 SITGES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

"3 1/2 STARS!"
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

The first stop-motion animated feature selected to Cannes, A TOWN CALLED PANIC follows the wacky, hilarious and often surreal adventures of three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town which never fails to attract the weirdest events. Each speedy character is voiced - and animated - as if they are filled with laughing gas. With hysteria a permanent feature of life in this papier-mâché burg, will Horse and his equine paramour - flame-tressed music teacher Madame Longray - ever find a quiet moment alone? The only way to find out is by seeing this love-child of a Gallic Monty Python and Art Clokey.

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"You know how kids play with little plastic action figures that balance their feet on their own little platforms? And how they're not on the same scale? And how kids move them around while doing their voices and making up adventures for them? And how literally anything is likely to happen in those adventures? Then you have a notion of the goofy charm generated by A TOWN CALLED PANIC."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times