You Better Promise Me, Arco, Take Me Back In Time

A gentle French animated time-travel tale, Arco blends soft sci-fi adventure with heartfelt friendship. Drawing subtle inspiration from Ghibli and Moebius, the film favours wonder, warmth, and quiet environmental themes over spectacle, delivering a thoughtful story about being lost in time and finding connection.

Arco Movie PosterElevation Pictures

As much as I sometimes use the idiom “tripping the light fantastic,” it applies doubly to a French animated film titled Arco. This is also the name of a young boy (Oscar Tresanini and Juliano Krue Valdi in the English version) who accidentally finds himself in the past after misusing a time-travel device in a post-modern future.

All he wanted was to go play with dinosaurs. Instead, things go sideways, and he lands in an unfamiliar era where he meets Iris (Margot Ringard Oldra; Romy Fay in the English version). She’s about his age, ten, and together they must avoid a group of conspiracy theorists convinced the boy is proof of alien visitation.

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