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Posted by Gerard S. Cohen (Member # 994) on 07-13-2012, 01:40 PM:

Kew Gardens Theatre Screen 1, 06/13/20 at 12 Noon

(An amusing short on the extinction of the sabre-tooth cat with a snowball white cat preceded the feature. Music from a Mozart Requium pared with a flaming meteor alternated with the innocent pussy's prattle.)
"A Cat In Paris", an animated French feature with English dialogue was nominated for an Academy Award. The cat lives with a little girl, her mother and nanny, but slips out every night to accompany a cat burglar on the rooftops of Paris.
Paris rooftops are lovingly drawn, and the action resembles that of comicbook superheroes. The working mother is a widow and police superintendant, and all the characters become tangled in a plot with a gang like the one "that couldn't shoot straight."
Just as the obligatory chase and confrontation between the good and not-so-good guys was reaching its climax amid the spires and gargoyles of Paris, my appetite for action turned to boredom; but the film, thankfully, soon ended.
There's an attempt at the age-old theme of the working mother, a widow, conflicted by her need to nurture her daughter,
and the little girl's love for her cat and longing for her deceased father.
This is probably the first modern animated feature I've seen. I found it artistically attractive, but not especially memorable.