Christian Volckman, Renaissance

Leave it to the French put the pizzazz back into bigscreen digital animation. Christian Volckman's silky, black-and-white Renaissance imagines a futuristic Paris where Gothic landmarks and the Eiffel Tower have sprouted communication wings and elevated highways. This dark sci-fi tale is so damned startlingly beautiful, it's surprising to find famous names like Daniel Craig, Ian Holm, and Jonathan Pryce doing the English voices.

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