Attila Marcel is a 2013 French comedy film written and directed by Sylvain Chomet.
In secret from his aunts, he undertakes therapy with Mrs Proust which consists of strange herbal teas whose taste is masked by madeleines and which make him relive, in flashes of memory, the events which led to the tragedy.
In turn, Paul learns to manage his relationships with music and with Michelle, a young Chinese cellist and adopted daughter of a friend of his aunts.
[6] Boyd van Hoeij of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "Both tonally and esthetically, the film's clearly a new twig on the family tree that started somewhere before Jacques Tati and branched out to include works from such noted French-language filmmakers as Jacques Demy, Jaco Van Dormael, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Michel Gondry.
With its eye-popping production and costume design; its heavily vintage-leaning musical arrangements (co-composed by Chomet); characters breaking out into song and its constant oscillation between wondrous joy and heartfelt melancholy, Marcel fits right in and should be able to drum up significant interest on home turf."