02/07/2026
Mu Yi and the Handsome General - Studio La Cachette's debut film
The based Paris studios announce their first feature film by its founder. It's titled Mu Yi and the Handsome General. Information and a video can be found below.
One of Paris's most prolific studios, Studio La Cachette (Primal, Star Wars: Visions) produces its first feature film entirely developed and financed in-house, which also marks the directorial debut of its founder Julien Chheng.
A stunning hand-drawn work based on the folk tale The Handsome General, a Chinese warrior who had to cover his face on the battlefield due to its unnatural beauty. Chheng takes this story and spins a time-travelling yarn about the role of women in Chinese society, the commodification of ancient civilizations and the difficulty of connecting to the history of your culture in the modern day.
"Artists, authors, directors, we all end up recreating myth," tells Chheng. "When you look at references of frescoes from the sixth century, you can't invent something better than this. It's just the obvious reference point. That was the overall approach to tell this story, looking back at history at real locations and grabbing what you need from reality and designing it into your world. In Mu Yi, everything comes from real places, real gestures, real customs and traditional arts."
Mu Yi and the Handsome General (originally Mu Yi, the Legend of the Village Women) will be released in French theaters on January 20, 2027.
Here's a clip from the latest Annecy:
[ Fra - source AnimationMagazine / CartoonBrew ]
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