The City of Lost Children (1995)
(La cité des enfants perdus)
Country: FR
Technical: col 111m
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Cast: Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Synopsis:
Evil scientist Krank lives on an abandoned oil rig with his family of cloned brothers and kidnaps children in search of one who is fearless enough to face him in his dreams.
Review:
Jeunet and Caro's follow-up to Delicatessen is likewise set in some indeterminate fantasy past and features many of the same hallmarks (sombre art direction, a richly detailed mise en scène, characters devoid of proper names, gallows humour and an even more elaborate instance of the butterfly effect in action). Undoubtedly endowed with a considerable budget, it does however tend to rely overmuch on its CGI trickery and directorial flourishes for a coherent story and autonomous characters to emerge (a weakness already present in the first film).
(La cité des enfants perdus)
Country: FR
Technical: col 111m
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Cast: Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Synopsis:
Evil scientist Krank lives on an abandoned oil rig with his family of cloned brothers and kidnaps children in search of one who is fearless enough to face him in his dreams.
Review:
Jeunet and Caro's follow-up to Delicatessen is likewise set in some indeterminate fantasy past and features many of the same hallmarks (sombre art direction, a richly detailed mise en scène, characters devoid of proper names, gallows humour and an even more elaborate instance of the butterfly effect in action). Undoubtedly endowed with a considerable budget, it does however tend to rely overmuch on its CGI trickery and directorial flourishes for a coherent story and autonomous characters to emerge (a weakness already present in the first film).
(La cité des enfants perdus)
Country: FR
Technical: col 111m
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Cast: Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Synopsis:
Evil scientist Krank lives on an abandoned oil rig with his family of cloned brothers and kidnaps children in search of one who is fearless enough to face him in his dreams.
Review:
Jeunet and Caro's follow-up to Delicatessen is likewise set in some indeterminate fantasy past and features many of the same hallmarks (sombre art direction, a richly detailed mise en scène, characters devoid of proper names, gallows humour and an even more elaborate instance of the butterfly effect in action). Undoubtedly endowed with a considerable budget, it does however tend to rely overmuch on its CGI trickery and directorial flourishes for a coherent story and autonomous characters to emerge (a weakness already present in the first film).