Iron Boy

Christophe is an 11-year-old farm boy who is bored to death on his strict father's farm. Suddenly he starts falling over for no reason, everywhere and always, even with the tractor. The solution? An orthopedic corset. But if Christophe is no longer allowed to lean over, he simply tilts the whole world. With a heavy dose of imagination, he discovers how fun it is to turn everything upside down… Commentaar Zijn's name might not ring a bell immediately, but director Louis Clichy is no stranger to the animation genre: for instance, he collaborated on Pixar films like Wall-E and Up. Met Iron Boy he delivers—in line with those films—a wonderfully mature family film, complete with a brilliantly nostalgic animation style. Young or old, empathizing with the sympathetic main character—who physically cannot always keep up quite as well with his peers—happens almost naturally. The coming-of-age edge and the richly present youthful fantasy complete this heartwarming film.