‘Inside Out’ Is A Hit At The Cannes Film Festival

by Olivia Truffaut-WongMay 18, 2015, 10:04 pm >

Pixar’s Inside Out premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival to rave reviews on Monday.

Pixar’s newest film is about an 11-year-old girl whose life is turned upside down when her family moves to San Francisco, sending her emotions, Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Fear (Bill Hader) into a tailspin. Directed by Up’s Pete Docter, the film charmed the notoriously critical Cannes audiences.

The movie was not shown in competition, but is by far the most popular film to premiere at the festival thus far:

“At the risk of hyperbole, people will still be thinking in terms of these anthropomorphized Emotions long after movies as we know them are gone, in the distant future, when screens are obsolete and immersive stories are beamed directly into your frontal lobe,” wrote Variety’s Peter Debruge, who added that the film was Pixar’s “most vivid and relatable film yet.”

“The invention of the film is pretty brilliant, as Sadness is never depicted as a troublemaker or a sower of sorrow – she just can’t help herself, she never knows why she does the things she does. And the conceit – that as we age and life throws more complications at us, our remembrance of things past becomes more emotionally complicated – is simple and profound and inventively conveyed,” noted Emily Yoshida of The Verge.

“In the end, Inside Out has to be one of the most conceptually trippy film sever made as a PG-rated popcorn picture for the general public,” wrote Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter.

Reporters also gushed about the film during the official Inside Out press conference, which you can watch in its entirety below.

Inside Out will be released in theaters on June 19.

Article by Olivia Truffaut-Wong

Olivia Truffaut-Wong was born and raised in Berkeley, California, where she developed her love of all things entertainment. After moving to New York City to earn her degree in Film Studies, she stayed on the East Coast to follow her passion and become an entertainment writer. She lives on a diet of television, movies and food.