Like "Crin Blanc" and "Le Ballon Rouge","Bim" was in the fifties,the sixties and even in the early seventies, part of an imaginary curriculum of the French junior litterature (and often the first movies the pupils used to see;the schoolteacher took them to the cinemas).Although written by Jacques Prévert ,"Bim" is not as successful as the two other shorts.The story of a poor Arab boy ,his donkey and the jealous local little prince is rather derivative.One should note that "Bim" was made well before the two others and thus can be considered a blueprint.
Pascal and Folco could not go on living in the adults' world ("Le Ballon Rouge" "Crin Blanc" ) but (because it takes place in a foreign "magic" "exotic" country ?) Abdallah becomes friend with the noble boy and his future seems as bright as those of SnowWhite or Cinderella.Is it Prevert's universal utopia?
"Le Ballon Rouge" "Bim" and "Crin Blanc" have long disappeared from the class books and it's perhaps too bad.This part of the French culture is now in the hands of foreign countries ,where critics never stopped lauding Lamorisse's charming poetry.
Pascal and Folco could not go on living in the adults' world ("Le Ballon Rouge" "Crin Blanc" ) but (because it takes place in a foreign "magic" "exotic" country ?) Abdallah becomes friend with the noble boy and his future seems as bright as those of SnowWhite or Cinderella.Is it Prevert's universal utopia?
"Le Ballon Rouge" "Bim" and "Crin Blanc" have long disappeared from the class books and it's perhaps too bad.This part of the French culture is now in the hands of foreign countries ,where critics never stopped lauding Lamorisse's charming poetry.