The hero has eight legs, no less. L’Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow, discovered at the Annecy Festival, is a parody of Agatha Christie’s mystery novels. The Spanish director of Deep in 2017, Julio Soto Gurpide, did not lack fantasy in confronting its hero with a dark murder case where he must deal with a cute jumping spider, a sensual black widow and a fearsome red cricket. All of this is funny, lively and graphically successful. We think of Antz or to 1001 legs which also featured the little people of spiders and insects.
Even for arachnophobes
“Throughout the story there are countless false leads, mysterious suspects and an ingenious plot woven like a spider’s web,” explains Julio Soto Gurpide. The 1930s constituted an ideal playground for animators and other designers who had a blast with the settings but also with the costumes of the creatures as beautiful as they were ingenious.
Even convinced arachnophobes have a good chance of falling under the spell of Inspector Sun and his ilk. This detective, a sort of Hercule Poirot, very funny in the way he takes himself seriously by straightening his mustache, is a success both in terms of its graphics and its animation. This investigation, rich in twists and turns and gags, deserves to be discovered and not disappear among the paintings of this end of the year.