Where even rubber dolls have a soul.

The festival boss showed courage to take risks - and was rewarded: the opening of the Cannes Film Festival proved to be so sad how easy animated film "Up" as a hit. And then? Deeply human film about witchcraft, soul hike - and Sexpuppen.

 

Have courage to take risks proved the festival chief Thierry Fremaux and his decision to launch Disney's new animated film "Top" to show. It is a pensioner a flight with one's own house, which he and thousands of balloons into the air can rise. It is hardly conceivable a film of his reviewers have so many puns for slating impose. How about "No air in Cannes", " 'top' crashed 'or' dreams burst on the Croisette?

So ran the opening many young ladies, which sometimes looked a little air, mile at the festival and distributed and balloons bearing the words "Up" to the passers-by. That was nice and happy children, but somehow had the discreet charm of Europe campaign. The balloon is finally nothing else as steeply in the level to rise, a film raises far more serious from. And was not Disney's shares have fallen recently, after analysts cast doubt on the prospects of success of "Top" had expressed?

Now is "top" of the launch ramp Cannes were fired. It can also take him high. Because the film is good. To show how good he is, we make with the puns on until no one is left: The Pixar production "top" heavy treated issues such as age, loneliness and death very seriously and yet with so slight, that it never feels as ballast. Even if the film is sometimes so sad that it almost hurts, he moves the audience never down. He keeps it in a miraculous state of limbo between heaven and earth, sadness and happiness, laughter and tears.

The director and scriptwriter Pete Docter ( "Monsters, WG") tells in "top" of the 78-year-old balloon seller Carl, a lifetime of dreams together with his wife Ellie after a trip to South America. But after Ellie's death, as their common home is threatened by demolition and around skyscrapers shoot into the air, he rafft on. And the only way to your destination of dreams leads: to the top. But an eight-year old scout named Russell has established itself as a stowaway with flying into the house smuggled.

At the beginning is "up" like a 3D remake of Doris Dörries melodrama "cherry blossoms". In minutes of the film durchmisst the decades of love, hopes, disappointments,

Dreams that are always at the real danger of being dashed. To grow in this extremely laconic and yet deeply touching sequence assembly was the genre of animated film, perhaps never before, then begins a great adventure with huge, colorful birds, talking dogs and a bad guy who looks like Kirk Douglas.

It succeeds in the film, which confirmed with the world view of an old man, while children with curious eyes to view. "Top" is a wise mind, a young heart, and also fits like no other film in the troubled times: "It is just a house," says the balloon seller at the end when he finally give up his beloved home needs. But as easy as in "Top" can not disconnect any of his possessions. In Sam Raimis horror film "Drag Me to Hell", one week at Cannes will be running to avenge an old woman who must admit their house, their rates because they no longer can afford, bitter: You bewitched them responsible for the bank employees.

To this question, it will be in Cannes, so go: What remains of the people left when their earthly possession must leave behind? The best, says Pete Docter in "Top", the worst, says Sam Raimi in "Drag Me to Hell". According to the information content of the films, the directors then move their characters in this year very closely on the soul.

While the retired Carl in "top" with his late wife looking Council, but receives no response, the French director Gaspar Noé, the idea of life after death, literally, in his competition entry "Enter the Void" is the hero shot, but his irrlichtert spirit continues through the life of his sister.

Marina De Vans film "Ne te retourne pas" augurs a soul migration between the bodies of Sophie Marceau and Monica Belucci. From a rubber doll, which contains a specific sense of life and awareness, says even the Japanese Kore-Eda Hirokazu in "Air dolls."

What makes us human, he wants to know. Is it the breath, we will be breathed into the air to us out? Questions about questions. The rooms in Cannes will be so full as ever. The films, but were probably never soulful.