The Insensitive Princess (La Princesse insensible) is a 1983 French animated television series written and directed by Michel Ocelot.
The animation combines hand-drawn animation and cutout animation, with the opening credits presented in silhouette animation. In hand-drawn animation, each frame of the animation is created by drawing or painting individual images by hand, one after another, to create the illusion of movement.
The elaborate architectural style of the production design has been compared, visually, to the fairy tales of Charles Perrault and Jean de La Fontaine. Like Ocelot's previous work Les Trois Inventeurs and several episodes of his later series Ciné si, The Insensitive Princess is set in a literary, fairy-tale-like fantasy world.
Specifically, it takes place in a palatial theater that blends the ornate styles of both the Ancien Régime (pre-Revolution France) and the Belle Époque (a period of cultural growth in late 19th-early 20th century France). The setting features fantastical elements such as a baroque-styled submarine, dragons, and anachronisms (like references to modern motorcycles), blending historical, mythical, and modern elements.
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