Moomins and Midsummer Madness

Hooray! There's a new moomin film out based on an old felt animation tv series from the 80's. This is easily one of the most inspiring films I've seen all year. It starts with an ordinary summer day in the moominvalley but soon there's a flood and the moomins have to leave their house and go live in a theatre. In the original series there was no dialogue but they've added that now. The music in the film is perfect for it but I'm still not sure if I loved or hated the dialogue, some of the character's voices were just so high pitched! But it's a brilliant film. A film review from The New York Times here. The trailer is on the film website www.muumielokuva.fi, but unfortunately only in Finnish and Swedish..