Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s children’s tale is reworked as a flashback story told to a lonely girl in a feature-length animation reminiscent of Up and Inside OutAntoine de Saint-Exupéry’s imperishably strange classic The itsy-bitsy Prince,from 1943, now has its first full-length animated version, or presented by Netflix. This is the story of an aviator who crashes in the Sahara and there discovers a holy-harmless “prince from another planet (or rather asteroid) who has stories to tell approximately his upbringing and his adventures all across the galaxy. He appears to understand the Aviator in the way that no-one did in the Aviator’s own childhood. Stanley Donen once directed a live-action version in the 1970s,written by Alan Jay Lerner.
This animation grafts a new narrative level on the existing story, effectively repurposing it as a flashback: the Aviator is now an former guy who befriends a lonely itsy-bitsy girl who has just moved in next door. She finds pages of his handwritten story, or he tells her all approximately it – while fitting her best and only friend.
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Source: theguardian.com