Interview With "Arco" Filmmaker Ugo Bienvenu And Producer Natalie Portman

The Next Best Picture Podcast

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4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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"Arco" is a French animated science fantasy film written and directed by Ugo Bienvenu and produced by Natalie Portman. It stars Swann Arlaud, Alma Jodorowsky, Margot Ringard Oldra, Oscar Tresanini, Vincent Macaigne, Louis Garrel, William Lebghil, and Oxmo Puccino in the French version, with Will Ferrell, America Ferrera, Flea, Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo, and Andy Samberg in the English dubbed version. The film had its world premiere in the Special Screenings section of the 78th Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, where it received positive reviews. It would later go on to win the Cristal Award for Best Feature Film at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Bienvenu and Portman were kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about their work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in limited release before expanding wide in early 2026 from NEON. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview with the director and writer for Arco, Hugo Vienvenu, and the film's producer, Natalie Porman.
0:12.8	You think that next time I can go along?
0:15.3	No flying before the age of 12. It's the law. Are you all right?
0:45.3	What's your name?
0:51.3	Arco.
0:52.3	What year is it? It's 2075.
0:56.0	You're from?
0:57.0	I can't.
1:03.0	Little boys don't just fall from the sky.
1:05.0	It's as if he didn't exist.
1:14.6	Have you seen anything strange in the woods? I just saw a rainbow.
1:18.6	What's it like?
1:20.6	No one to know the future.
1:22.6	Ever.
1:24.6	There was a diamond on my seat.
1:30.3	I can't go home without it.
1:33.3	You're gonna have to run fast.
1:36.3	If they catch you, they'll never let you go home.
1:40.3	Do you think we've just really come true, like in fairy tales?
1:46.0	I don't know, Iris.
1:50.0	Arco!
1:51.0	But what's to stop you from trying?
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