Available on Netflix: Secret of Kells

Post date: Jan 18, 2011 2:25:03 PM

If you haven't yet seen this mesmerizing animation, The Secret of Kells (a fictionalized telling of the creation of The Book of Kells), it is highly advised that you add it to your Netflix cue at once! It is also available for streaming in HD. The animators have taken the style and beauty of the original book itself and translated it into an almost psychedelic experience which may inspire young viewers to want to learn more about the amazing pictures preserved in centuries-old illuminated manuscripts.

"The story concerns a Celtic boy named Brendan who helps a master illuminator finish the book, then protects it from Viking marauders... But the soul of the film lies in its ravishing colors, and in exuberantly stylized images that pay homage to Celtic culture and design, together with techniques and motifs that evoke Matisse, Miyazaki and the minimalist cartoons of UPA." ~Joe Morgenster at The Wall Street Journal