Pierre Coré

Born in 1969 in Paris, Pierre Coré is director, screenwriter and producer. He directed animated and live action movies. Since 2006 he has been directing the “La Station Animation” company based in Paris and Arles. THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY OF MARGOT & MARGUERITE is his most recent film.

Director’s statement
“It was my sister who let me know the comic [Le Temps de Marguerite n.d.t.]: ‘It's a poetic and very charming book, with many themes that may interest you’ she told me. Indeed, it is a comic book full of ideas, and a very clever layout with two parallel strips, one set in 1910, the other in 2010, each of which can be read independently. And this comic book responded to my desire to tell stories for children and families. The story was perfect: the heroes were children, the plot mixed the historical ages and evoked the relationships with parents and grandparents. Filming THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY OF MARGOT & MARGUERITE meant the pleasure of making a comedy where the viewer would be surprised by tone breaks and anachronisms, and of turning my heroines into little anthropologists immersed in the habits and customs of a time which is not theirs. It also gave me the opportunity to deal, between the lines, with themes dear to me such as memory and transmission, the status of women and especially the father figure. I’m interested in questioning the role of the father, fallible hero or pillar, his physical presence, his psycho-emotional contribution and behavior.”