story
In 2075, a ten-year-old girl, Iris, witnesses a mysterious boy in a rainbow suit fall from the sky. It’s Arco. He comes from an idyllic far future where time travel is possible. Iris shelters him and will do whatever it takes to help him return to his time.
"The times which we live in are particularly uncertain, complex, difficult to live in. I therefore needed the opposite, a story that would give hope and invite us to imagine a world, not of tomorrow (which already seems doomed) but of the day after tomorrow. A desirable, possible horizon, a world in which it would be good to live, a goal to achieve.
It seems to me, more than ever before, that anything is feasible, we must believe that the best is possible, we must imagine it for the best to happen.
From the initial stages, my idea was to make a film for everyone, in a classic style, ambitious, in the line of the adventure films that left an indelible mark on me and have inspired me to do what I do. To name a few: E.T., Peter Pan, Pinocchio, My Neighbour Totoro, Ponyo, Kiki’s Delivery Service, The King and the Mockingbird, or Kirikou. So many general-public films, light-hearted on the surface yet demanding; films that empower us for reality, question our humanity, our relationship to others and the world.
The crystalline purity of the character of Arco prompted me to work with all my heart on this project. When they leave the theatre after seeing the film, I hope the audience will never again see the magical phenomenon that is a rainbow in the same way. I hope that they will be able to project themselves into the promise of another future."
- Ugo Bienvenu