Stylized graphics don’t try to trick you into believing something is real but instead ask you to extend disbelief. Once I’m there, immersed, caring is second nature.

The film takes the best lessons away from other stylized animated films like Into the Spider-Verse and uses its creative animation as a tool for its own thematic resonance and messages.

Of course, I want a more stylized, more cartoony flavor than this. It’s in a way, the look, that animation style is very French but international, at the same time. It’s weird.

A number of Oscar-nominated films -- "The Dark Knight," "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Wanted" -- feature sounds of violence that have been stylized to elicit a different kind of visceral experience ...