The Monk and the Fish
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| The Monk and the Fish | |
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 Screenshot from The Monk and the Fish |
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| Directed by | Michaël Dudok De Wit |
| Produced by | Patrick Eveno Jacques-Remy Girerd |
| Written by | Michaël Dudok De Wit |
| Music by | Serge Besset |
| Release date(s) | 1994 |
| Running time | 6:20 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | no dialogue |
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The Monk and the Fish (Moine et le poisson, Le) is an animated short film made by Michaël Dudok De Wit in 1994. It was nominated for Oscar, BAFTA Film Award for Best short animated film and won 3 others.
[edit] Story plot
Standing next to a water reservoir in a monastery enclave, a monk sees a fish and goes to get his net to catch it. The fish eludes him and the monk gets rather agitated as he tries increasingly extreme ways of catching the fish. He gets into the pond himself, and enlists the help of other monks; he tries candles, and a bow and arrow to no avail. The more the fish manages to evade him, the more obsessed the monk gets. He follows the fish out of the pond into a canal, through different landscapes and out of the confines of the monastery. Eventually the chase gets less frantic and the monk and the fish move in harmony. They float through a door into the open space and drift off into the sky together.
[edit] Miscellanea
- The film was made using a cel animation technique; nowadays cel animation is often assisted by computers, but this has been made in the traditional way using brush, Indian ink, and watercolour.
- The specially created music score, by Serge Besset, is based on La Follia by Arcangelo Corelli.
