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Director: Serge Elissalde, Grégoire Solotareff
France, 2006, 75 min
In French with English subtitles.
Recommended for grades 4 and up

Themes: Friendship, Loyalty, Music, Coming of Age

This lovely hand-painted movie explores the friendship between a unicorn and a small girl who is the object of her adoptive parent’s constant scorn and cruelty. Mona lives in a ruined castle by the sea. She is a princess but lives a life of misery, mistreated by an odious pair of rats. One day an adorable little unicorn, U, appears and declares that she is there to help her through life and to assure her happiness. The two become inseparable. One day U brings home a charming and funny Lizard, Lazare. Scandalized by this intrusion to their home, the rats demand the newcomer leaves. In the surrounding woods they meet Lazare's family, the Wewes, a family of musicians living in a tree. Here life couldn't be more different than in the castle, full of pleasure, music and merrymaking. Mona discovers two new things: the wonder of music and a blossoming attraction to the young guitarist Kulka. However U suddenly becomes aware of a worrying dilemma. What will happen to her if Mona finds happiness, which is the sole reason for her existence...? This coming of age fairytale follows the melancholy Princess Mona as she learns about loyalty, love and how to have fun.

With the assistance of the French Consulate.

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