Weekend Watch: The Gorgeous Animation of ‘The Little Prince’ Needs to Be Seen

The Little Prince. This version of it places the novella’s story within a frame story — filmed in a more modern, Pixar-ish style — of a young girl (voiced by Interstellar‘s Mackenzie Foy) discovering the book to begin with. Osborne told the Los Angeles Times that he made the character a little girl after seeing research from the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media about the gender disparity in animated films, which you have you admit is pretty boss. The story of The Little Prince itself is told in a breathtakingly gorgeous stop-motion style, and the contrast between both types of animation is jarring at first, but it tells a story. Read More…