Story without words
A most interesting bias. Young and old can understand the story “instinctively” and let their imagination run wild like children’s games. A rather solitary type, Flow spends his days lounging in an abandoned house or stealing food from a pack of dogs. A life, not always peaceful, turned upside down by a sudden and very significant rise in global waters. Luckily, while drowning threatens him, a boat approaches, occupied by a peaceful capybara. And in which a labrador eager to play ball, a ring-tailed lemur collecting human objects and a rather haughty and directive bird, a solitary messenger, will soon take refuge. Suffice to say that cohabitation will not be easy.
Intelligently, Flow revisits the Flood and Noah’s ark, to symbolically address some major societal themes, such as climate change and its disastrous consequences, the obsession with the possession of wealth to the detriment of the essential, solidarity in times of crisis, the complementarity of beautiful differences, the sharing of resources, leadership or peaceful coexistence.
It’s pretty, intelligent, touching, full of humanity (while the animals are alone on stage), full of different reading levels and accessible to all. Not sure that the children will see the same film as their parents, but upon arrival, everyone should be delighted. A real favorite.
