TEHRAN-The 2017 animation “Coco” directed by Lee Unkrich will be screened and reviewed at Andisheh Cultural Center in Tehran on Monday.

After screening at 5 p.m., the animation will be reviewed in a session attended by film critics Hesam Forouzan and Mohsen Soleymani Fakher and art researcher Hamidreza Ranjbarzadeh, ILNA reported.

“Coco” is an American animated fantasy comedy-drama film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

The story follows a 12-year-old boy named Miguel, an aspiring musician, who, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer, to return him to his family and reverse their ban on music.

The concept for “Coco” is inspired by the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead. The film received acclaim for its animation, music, visuals, emotional story, and respect for Mexican culture. It grossed over $814 million worldwide, becoming the 15th highest-grossing animated film ever at the time of its release. “Coco” received two awards at the 90th Academy Awards and numerous other accolades. The film was chosen by the National Board of Review as the Best Animated Film of 2017.

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 97% based on 359 reviews, with an average rating of 8.3/10. The consensus reads; “Coco's rich visual pleasures are matched by a thoughtful narrative that takes a family-friendly—and deeply affecting—approach to questions of culture, family, life, and death”. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 81 out of 100, based on 48 critics, indicating “universal acclaim”. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of “A+” on an A+ to F scale, one of fewer than 90 films in the history of the service to receive such a score.

At the 90th Academy Awards, “Coco” received awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song. The film's other nominations include thirteen Annie Awards (winning eleven), a British Academy Film Award (which it won), two Critics' Choice Movie Awards (winning both), and two Golden Globe Awards (winning one).

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