A courageous girl seeks to save her father from the Taliban in Nora Twomey’s magical adaptation of Deborah Ellis’s novelFurther proof that we are living through a golden age of animation is provided by this Oscar-nominated marvel from Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon, the studio behind The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea.
An Irish-Canadian-Belgian co-production, adapted from Deborah Ellis’s much-loved Ya novel, it’s a tale of youthful fortitude in Taliban-era Afghanistan that has something of the defiant feminist spirit of the French-Iranian gem Persepolis.Flitting between a mythical past and a down-to-earth present, the story is full of scary monsters – from fantastical demons to all-too-real landmines and brutal beatings.
Yet The Breadwinner looks through the eyes of a resilient young girl whose courage is our guide.
Along with the eerie beauty of the animation there is a salving streak of humour that softens this tale’s sharper edges,
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