Iron Boy

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

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

"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."

“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.”

“Iron Boy establishes itself as a philosophical work about memory and personal growth.”

"The film portrays with sensitivity the pains of adolescence."

"This realism coexists with a soundtrack of choral echoes and religious iconography that elevates the story to a spiritual dimension."