The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

a profound admirable film. for the techniques of animation. for the simplicity of story. for the memories of viewer. and, for its status of war story out of familiar formulas. it is the story of a boy and his long way to meet his brother. but the different tools of animation, the great care for details, the delicate homage to the Senegal men fighting for France in WW I, Verdun and his tragic story after a century, the mixture of myths and near history, the clash between two different civilizations, the protective guide as jester and the duty against each difficult situation, the admirable trip across drawings and clay puppets are motifs to see this special, real special film. a film for know. or remember. using contemporary themes.