Iron Boy

"The impressive solo directing debut from Louis Clichy bolsters its intimate, small-scale story with detailed, nuanced characters and strikingly lovely 2D hand drawn animation."

"The immediate selling point for the picture is its gorgeous, organically hand-crafted style."

"The music is transformative — it touches Christophe and it changes the world around him, with the earthy tones of the landscape suddenly shifting to green and the promise of new life."

"Iron Boy is both visually dazzling and deeply personal, making for a potential breakout from this year’s Cannes Film Festival.”

"A film of reminiscence, taking shape through Chinese inkbrush paintings which make straight lines feel fluid, like memories."

"This style isn't just attractive, and intimate, but philosophical in its approach to recollection."

"It is, in a word, lovely."

"Lyrical and authentic."

"Carrying on a very French tradition of arthouse animation films that blend realism and fantasy, autobiography and imagination, Iron Boy offers an honest and graceful depiction of growing up in a working-class household."

“A bittersweet, gorgeously animated family film that looks like a watercolor painting come to life.”

“In every beautiful song and stunning frame of animation, Clichy makes something truly magical from the everyday.”

"It's the type of film that already feels like it could become a new classic for animation lovers new and old."

"Clichy offers a path forward. He shows us the wonder that can be found from striking out on your own and making something beautifully original."

"It is this very endearing pre-teen whose life Louis Clichy has chosen to chronicle over three years in the miraculous Iron Boy, a little gem of an animated film."

"With masterful control over the pace of his narrative, Louis Clichy directs a delightful film, as moving as Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, and as funny as the awkward transition into adolescence can sometimes be.

"Thanks to the simple purity of its animation, Iron Boy unfolds a fantastical, celestial and earthly poetry of reality, which does not prevent it from addressing serious subjects.”

"Audiences of all ages will admire this heartwarming visual delight and be easily moved by its inspiring message that every person is gifted with a superpower."

"Previous Pixar animator Clichy wields his brush to deliver sublime hand-painted watercolor animation with an indelible, tender quality in Iron Boy."

"A timeless tale that pinpoints the very nature of humans to desire meaning and embrace individuality. It remains the most compelling animated film of the year sure to resonate with and entertain the entire family."