Katherine S. Interviews cast and crew of 10 Lives at Sundance Film Festival
12Katherine S. Interviews cast and crew of 10 Lives at Sundance Film Festival 2024.
SYNOPSIS: A pampered cat takes for granted the lucky hand he has been dealt after he is rescued and loved by Rose, a kind-hearted and passionate student. When he loses his ninth life, fate steps in to set him on a transformative journey.
WHO: Chris Jenkins (Director), Mo Gilligan (Cast), Simone Ashley (Cast), Guy Collins (Producer), and Martin Metz (Producer)
This sweetly-charming children’s animation from the UK goes back to basics in style and content, grooming a smart idea into a purring success. Super-experienced animator Christopher Jenkins may ostensibly appear to be playing it safe, but his fat cat Beckett should have the film’s target audience of under-10s and their minders easily in the hat.
10 Lives premieres at Sundance in the Special section. The animation is clean and sun-dappled, set in England’s Dorset coast which is happily multi-racial and modern. (There are few jokes for adults, but British grown-ups won’t miss the fact that the film’s chief villain, voiced by Bill Nighy, bears more than a passing resemblance to hardline Conservative politician Jacob Reese-Mogg). Here is where Beckett (voiced by UK comedian Mo Gilligan), a sort of ‘Top Cat’ of the Jurassic Coast, has been recklessly milking his way through life, or lives, in pursuit of the next meal and comfortable lap.
Kids will enjoy watching this haughty cat get humbled as he tumbles through karma and learns about how precious life is. Yet what stands out is how, even after all these years in the business, Jenkins clearly has still has the spirit of fun and storytelling aimed at small children and that’s remarkable. Modest though this film may be, it’s a genial achievement.
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