Adventure · Animation · Mystery
American
2011 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 107 min
A young reporter buys a model ship at a street market and is soon pulled into a chase across continents. Hergé's comic-strip hero meets a sea captain, a pair of inept detectives and a centuries-old puzzle in a fast, playful adventure.
Why it matters in cinema history
A late-career landmark of performance-capture filmmaking, it places a classic European comic and a Hollywood adventure tradition in the same digital space, and it shows both what the technology could do and where its limits lay.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a director's playground: how freely the camera travels once it no longer has to obey physical space.
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