Félicie finds her training very difficult, but with Camille's letter of acceptance, she manages to take her place at the ballet school.

Odette agrees to mentor Félicie, who later learns that Odette was a former prima ballerina. In her anger, Félicie hides the letter and decides to assume Camille's identity to get into the school and pursue her dream. As Félicie takes it to Victor for repair, she intercepts the postman who brings a letter from the Opera admitting Camille to the celebrated school of the Paris Opera Ballet partly because of her mother's connection. Camille sees Félicie, insults her, and throws Félicie's treasured music box out of the window, breaking it. While helping Odette clean, Félicie spies Regine's daughter, Camille ( Maddie Ziegler), practicing ballet. Odette works for both the Opera and for the cruel and imperious Régine Le Haut ( Julie Khaner), a wealthy restaurant owner. She is rescued by a mysterious cleaner with a limp, Odette ( Carly Rae Jepsen), who agrees to let Félicie stay with her until she gets on her feet. Félicie finds her way to the Paris Opera, where the guard catches her trespassing. Together they go to Paris, but they soon become separated, and Victor becomes an office boy in Gustave Eiffel's workshop. In the 1880s, eleven-year-old Félicie ( Elle Fanning), a poor orphan girl who dreams of becoming a ballerina, but lacks formal training, runs away from her orphanage in rural Brittany with her best friend, Victor ( Dane DeHaan), a young inventor.

Ballerina received generally mixed reviews from critics, but was a box office success, grossing $106.1 million worldwide against a $30 million budget. The film was released in the United States on 25 August 2017, with the voices of Nat Wolff (who replaced DeHaan), Kate McKinnon and Mel Brooks added. The film was released in cinemas in France and the United Kingdom on 12 December 2016, followed by releases in various countries over the following several months, including Canada on 24 February 2017. A co-production between Canadian and French companies, the film takes place in 1880s France and follows a poor orphan girl who dreams of becoming a ballerina and gets a chance to audition for the celebrated school of the Paris Opera Ballet.īallerina stars the voices of Elle Fanning, Dane DeHaan, Maddie Ziegler and Carly Rae Jepsen. The stealing of the letter is apparently totally justified because Camille threw Félicie’s dead mother’s music box out a window.Ballerina (titled Leap! in the United States) is a 2016 3D computer-animated musical adventure comedy film co-directed by Éric Summer and Éric Warin and written by Summer, Carol Noble and Laurent Zeitoun. Félicie has been working for Camille’s evil mother (Kate McKinnon). Within a day, Victor is working for an unnamed Gustav Eiffel, and Félicie has scammed her way into a prestigious ballet school after taking the acceptance letter intended for spoiled brat Camille (Maddie Ziegler). She wants to be a dancer, he wants to be an inventor. We’re plunged into the drama right away as dreamers Félicie (given voice by Elle Fanning) and Victor (Nat Wolff) bid bye-bye to their draconian orphanage in the 19th century French countryside and hitch a ride to Paris. There is a lot misplaced effort in “Leap!” - and, unfortunately, very little seems to have been put into the story and screenplay, written by Laurent Zeitoun, Eric Summer and Carol Noble. At times though it seems all of the resources have been put into the background environment instead of the characters. Though the distressingly large lollipop heads of the characters are often disconcerting, some of the animation is striking and near photorealistic. theaters equipped with a Carly Rae Jepsen summer jam, “Cut to the Feeling.” But you’ll spend an hour and 27 minutes waiting for the film to cut to that tune because the ramshackle storytelling takes its own sweet time in this tale of a young girl finding passion and purpose through dance. This Canadian production, originally titled “Ballerina,” finally hits U.S. The animated feature “Leap!” pirouettes onto screens hoping to snag the attention of young audiences during the dog days of summer.

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