‘Lucy Lost’ Review: A Winsome Family Animation With Welcome Narrative Complexity
Variety | 01.07.2026 23:03
From the blockbuster stage and screen iterations of “War Horse” to the underseen “When the Whales Came” to the recent, BAFTA-winning “Kensuke’s Kingdom,” the books of English author Michael Morpurgo have reliably made for sturdy, literate family films of a comfortingly old-fashioned stripe. That streak continues with “Lucy Lost.” A handsome and emotionally involving wartime adventure cleverly adapted from Morpurgo’s 2014 book “Listen to the Moon,” the film marks a most promising feature directing debut for French animator Olivier Clert, who brings a pleasingly cosmopolitan sensibility to a story set predominantly on Britain’s remote, tranquil Isles of Scilly.
