What better time than the holiday season to dive into the wonderful world of toys? Cinema has always loved to use its magic to fulfill an eternal childhood dream: seeing toys come to life. Naturally showcasing animated films, this series takes us at the frontiers of imagination, fantasy, and dreams through movies where toys are very well alive, albeit in different ways. By turns strange, amusing, wonderful, or unsettling, these toy stories inevitably lead us to reflect on our own humanity, while always managing to strike a chord deep within us.
François, an unemployed journalist, finds a job at a newspaper owned by a billionaire and begins his new position by covering a story at a toy store also owned by the billionaire. The owner happens to be visiting the store with his son, to whom he has promised any toy he wants. The problem is that the boy chooses François, who is forced to turn himself into a living toy in order to keep his job.
Francis Veber
Francis Veber is a French film director, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. He is mainly known for his successful comedies, either solely as a screenwriter, with films like Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire (1972), or as a director. Veber’s scripts often rely on physical comedy and are structured around a vaudeville-style format, sometimes drawing on the traditional comic duo dynamic, such as the white clown and the Auguste. Having lived in the United States since the 1980s, he made his professional comeback in France with the play Le dîner de cons in 1993, followed by its film adaptation in 1998, which became one of his greatest successes.
