![]() But perhaps we can look forward to those in the sequel. Yes, the fish bleat, which is the kind of endearing detail – along with the way objects float around so slowly underwater – that makes you wish Casarosa had set more scenes in the merpeople's society. He and his family of merpeople are the aquatic equivalent of peasant farmers: Luca himself is a shepherd who tends to a flock of bleating fish. Its hero, Luca (voiced by Jacob Tremblay), is like any other young boy except that he has pale green skin, blue freckles and a long tail, and he lives at the bottom of the sunlit ocean. His cartoon is aimed at the heart – and the tastebuds – rather than the brain. Instead of aiming for the metaphysical profundity of Pixar's last offering, Soul, or the mythological sprawl of Disney's recent action-epic, Raya and the Last Dragon, Casarosa has crafted a modest and gentle yarn about a few good-natured people in a small area, and their enviably simple way of life. A gelato-sweet coming-of-age fantasy, Luca is inspired in part by The Little Mermaid, but mostly by the childhood of its director, Enrico Casarosa, an animation veteran who makes his debut as a feature director here. In fact, celebrating the Italian dolce vita could well be the cartoon's main purpose. The new Disney-Pixar film is set in and around an idealised Riviera village, a rustic paradise of trattorias, vineyards, and crumbling town squares with fountains in the middle. ![]() If you don't live in Italy, and you don't have a holiday booked there, then watching Luca might be the next best thing.
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