The Secret of Kells was pretty much the greatest in feature length animation in the 21st Century. (I know! Fighting words for Miyazaki and Pixar fans…) So I really can’t tell you how excited I am to see that the same team is bringing us Song of the Sea, a selkie story, later this month. It’s a limited release but judging from this trailer and the screen shots below, it’ll be well worth seeking out!
This looks so freaking adorable I must have it when it comes out!
Ahhhh my heart this is so beautiful!!!
this brings me joy. i loved the animation style of “secret of kells”, i love the exploration of irish mythology and i am glad to see more of it.
Ah, something to look forward to! 2015 will be the Year of the Selkie in the US. Most of us won’t get to see this movie in theaters until January or February…and then later in the year, Shelley Moore Thomas, author of the very fine middle-grade fantasy The Seven Tales of Trinket, is coming out with her second fantasy novel, Secrets of Selkie Bay.
I adored the animation in The Secret of Kells…though as a Christian, I was amused that a film about the making of a book of the Gospels was pretty much a Christianity-free zone. (Note: “amused,” I say, not offended.) What was in that book, anyway? Um…some Celtic wisdom or something. Personally, I think it would have been fine to have included all the elements of Celtic mythology we see in the film while still making it clear that the Book was a book of the Gospels. Celtic Christianity was often open to the pre-Christian mythos and its worldview, and the movie could have happily smushed it all together in a similar fashion.
Anyway, I love many selkie tales, and combining selkies with Tomm Moore (the Celtic Miyazaki) & Co’s approach to animation may just produce my favorite animated feature ever. Can’t wait!
Hope this actually plays somewhere near me! Book of Kells was a good film, and it’s wonderful to see stylized 2D animation from a new voice.
PS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inF6KpowYe0 (John Doyle’s “Selkie”)
The Book of Kells was jawdropping — I’m really happy that I got so see it in a film theatre. I hope I’ll get to see this one in a theatre too!