Directed by: Tim Burton
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Cast: Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green, Roshan Seth, Eliza, Nico Parker, Deobia Oparei, Alan Arkin, Joseph Gatt, Douglas Reith, Finlay Hobbins, Sandy Martin, Lars Eidinger, Michael Buffer, Bern Collaco
Dumbo is a 2019 animated film directed by Tim Burton. The film is set in the United States in 1919. The film tells the story of Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell), a former Medici circus equestrian acrobat who returns from the war with a missing arm, seeking to reclaim his life along with his wife Millie (Nico Parker) and his son Joe (Finley Hobbins), but from -due to an accident, he cannot return to his old job.
His employer, Max Medici (Danny DeVito), offers him a job and asks him to take care of a new Indian elephant. The animal gives birth to a puppy with exaggeratedly large ears, which the audience laughs at the first performance. An enraged mother destroys the circus tent to protect her little son, and the whipping boy Rufus Sorgum dies in an accident. The Medici decides to return the elephant to its previous owner, leaving the baby elephant, which Millie and Joe name Dumbo. It is they who discover that the puppy can fly thanks to his giant ears, and his performance, staged to revive the circus, is a huge success.
Dumbo becomes famous, and the story of his unique talent reaches the ears of wealthy entrepreneur Vandevere (Michael Keaton), the owner of an amusement park with a circus, amusement rides and other attractions. Vandevere invites the Medicis to bring Dumbo for a performance in Dreamland by organizing an elephant act with French balloon artist Colette Marchand (Eva Green). However, during the show, Dumbo hears his mother’s voice and runs off to find her, finding her right in the amusement park, and Holt rescues Colette, who has fallen into the void.
Mrs. Dumbo’s life is now in danger, as Vandevere sees her as an annoying distraction for a small animal whose talent he is determined to use at all costs, but now Dumbo has earned the love and trust of Holt, Colette, and many others who want to protect him and his mother from the clutches of the greedy impresario.
Gardens adjoining Place Arno, Pagnana
The fourth edition of “Cinema under the Stars” by Archie Territorial Committee of Empolese Valdelsa APS, in collaboration with Archie Valdarno Inferiore APS.
