The French have really been killing it with cat-based feature length hand-drawn animations recently, with this and A Cat in Paris coming out relatively close together (within a couple of years). The Rabbi’s Cat is more adult though, as a Algerian cat gifted with speech makes his sardonic and explicit opinions about sex, religion, and politics known throughout a pre-WWII picaresque journey that takes him from the multiethnic streets of his home city to the tented camps of extremist Muslims on his and his Rabbi’s search for a hidden Jerusalem.

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