Mune: Guardian of the Moon | A gentle faun and a feisty girl save the day in French animated fantasy

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(Image credit: © 2014 Onyx Films-Orange Studio)

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Fantasy world.

The charming French animated movie Mune: Guardian of the Moon takes place in a fantasy world where two guardians keep the sun and the moon tethered to the planet, ensuring harmony between light and darkness. Get your head around the film’s slightly convoluted mythology and you will be rewarded by an engaging adventure in which a gentle faun-like creature and a feisty young girl made from wax must save the day after the sun gets stolen. Rob Lowe features among the English dub’s voice cast as the jock-like guardian of the sun, a big dumb blowhard whose vanity triggers the crisis.

Certificate PG. Runtime 86 mins. Directors Alexandre Heboyan, Benoît Philippon

Mune: Guardian of the Moon (Mune, le gardien de la lune) debuts on Sky Cinema Premiere on 10 February. Available on DVD & Digital from Universal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-YuxDOO8pU

 

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Jason Best
Jason Best

A film critic for over 25 years, Jason admits the job can occasionally be glamorous – sitting on a film festival jury in Portugal; hanging out with Baz Luhrmann at the Chateau Marmont; chatting with Sigourney Weaver about The Archers – but he mostly spends his time in darkened rooms watching films. He’s also written theatre and opera reviews, two guide books on Rome, and competed in a race for Yachting World, whose great wheeze it was to send a seasick film critic to write about his time on the ocean waves. But Jason is happiest on dry land with a classic screwball comedy or Hitchcock thriller.