Algiers, 1920s. Rabbi Sfar has more than one problem. His beautiful daughter is becoming a teenager and above all, his parrot-killing cat has just started talking!

The delivery of a box from Russia further complicates things when a painter is discovered inside, more dead than alive. He is on a quest for a hidden tribe and its mythical city in Africa. Convinced that the city exists, he sets off on an incredible adventure, taking with him the Rabbi, his cat, a wise old Arab Sheikh and an eccentric Russian millionaire.

Sfar’s style and vision carries a universal message of tolerance, in this highly original, beautifully crafted film, celebrating a joyful and multi-colorful return to hand-drawn 2D. –uniFrance

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Andrei Fyodorov

13Apr13

Loved it because of the soundtrack - a fusion of Satie-style 'furniture music' and klezmer tunes. The story itself is rather fascinating. Kids were laughing at the theatre.

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25Feb13

Just like Sfar's other movie, Gainsbourg, it starts on a high note, and loses it all midway.

PolarisDiB

21Feb13

http://www.directorscutradio.com/2013/02/21/capsule-review-the-rabbis-cat-2011/ --DB

Henrique Amud

24Jan13

The cat is greatt and the animationis fantastic, but it got lost right in the middle of the film and took long to get interesting again. As someone already put it, full of awkward remarks on seriou topics

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ND/NF 2012. Burnat + Davidi, Sfar + Delesvaux, Anka + Wilhelm Sasnal, Song

By David Hudson on March 25, 2012

Four films see their first New Directors/New Films screenings on Monday and Tuesday.

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Second Trailer For Joann Sfar's THE RABBI'S CAT

By Twitchfilm.com on April 29, 2011

Joann Sfar’s popular graphic novels about a rabbi and his talking cat – published in seventeen languages around the world – come to the big screen in June thanks to an animated feature film directed by

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