(courtesy Animation Magazine)
SNAPSHOT
Cloud Girl tells the story of an 11-year-old avid reader entrusted with a magical quill that can grant any wish it writes. When she wishes to fly and for her guinea pig, Airbag, to talk, the duo embark on a dangerous adventure to save the planet.The voice cast is led by Faith Delaney (Hamnet, The Death of Robin Hood), Hugh Laurie (House, Holmes and Watson, Tomorrowland), Joseph Balderrama (F1: The Movie) Ken Nwosu (Greenland 2: Migration) and Bhavnisha Parmar (Doctor Who). (courtesy Animation Magazine)
Who doesn’t want all their dreams to come true?
Leaving aside if we could actually handle all that wish fulfillment, especially if you’re an 11-year-old bookworm named Providence, it’s a pretty enticing prospect and one that immediately entices a young girl who appears to not yet be sure of her exact place in the world (fair enough too – who else is certain of that at her age?).
The central character in the 2015 novel The Little Girl Who Swallowed a Cloud as Big as the Eiffel Tower by Romain Puértolas, Cloud Girl, helmed by French director Philippe Riche, looks like exactly the sort of heroine we need – someone who’s willing to take chances, doesn’t handle all the consequences that entails and learns from them, somehow changing the world along the way.
What’s not to love?
Already screening a cross Europe, Cloud Girl opens in U.S. on 8 January 2027 with o Australian releases date assigned yet.