MAF - Phantom Boy

'Phantom Boy' is a 2015 French film I viewed at the Manchester Arts Festival (MAF 2016).
It a very interesting supernatural crime film set in New York City which follows the story of a detective and a boy named Leo who has discovered his ability to leave his body to move around in spirit form. With his special ability he helps the detective hunt down the villain known as "The Broken Face".

The Broken Face making a video threat

What I liked most about the film is it's sense of humour especially with the main villain. He clearly has a serious agenda and reason behind what he is doing but their are constantly many funny distraction in the film interrupting him from explaining his backstory which leaves you wondering at the end of the film "what was his reason for being evil?" which leaves you with a humours impression of the film. The animation is well thought out and done, even the use of audio, despite using a very simplistic art style. This shows that as long as the animation is done right almost any art styles can be used to create a great animated film.

Leo reaching his limit in spirit form