Summary
Stone-dust motes swirl round a charcoal-sketched savanna where Felix the cat, sly as mercury, trespasses on a lovelorn Neanderthal tableau. A cave-girl’s lacrimose eyes—two obsidian crescents—lock onto the feline foreigner; her brute lover’s jealousy erupts like a volcano carved in scratchy ink. Felix, tail a semaphore of panic, pirouettes off a precipice, latching onto prehensile vines of simian mercy, each monkey-tail a living bungee cord. Down the cliff’s calligraphic vertigo he glissades, landing amid a diapered baby monkey whose rubber-limbed innocence beguiles him. Yet idyll curdles when a skyscraper-sized silverback barges in, chest-beats thundering like kettledrums, forcing the cat to wage a balletic shadow-boxing duel that ends in a puff of jungle dust and existential bewilderment.
Synopsis
Felix comes upon a caveman and his girlfriend. The girlfriend is crying, and when the caveman asks her what she wants, she points to Felix. The caveman chases Felix, who escapes by using the tails of some friendly monkeys to make his way down a steep cliff. Later he makes friends with a baby monkey, but winds up getting in a fight with a huge gorilla.
Director
Otto Messmer
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