Details and footage from Pixar’s Inside Out were revealed by director Pete Docter at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this week, according to Variety. The industry paper was extremely impressed with the presentation, calling it “stunning” and adding “At the risk of overstatement, the film could eventually prove to be as revolutionary as Dante’s Divine Comedy, which so vividly described the Italian poet’s vision of heaven and hell that it has shaped the public’s image of both ever since. In the absence of a truly satisfying model for how the mind works, Inside Out gives people a new way to visualize their own thought process.”
Riley Anderson is the young girl at the center of the film but according to Docter, “Riley is not our main character; she is our setting.” Five color-coded characters represent her different emotions. When two conflicting emotions get stuck in an unfamiliar part of Riley’s mind during a traumatic experience in the girls life, they have to put aside their differences and travel through uncharted areas of her psyche — while the rest of the emotions try to keep things running smoothly without them. Inside Out is scheduled to open June 19, 2015. Check out Variety’s report for full details.