Day 4: La Cité des Enfants Perdus (1995)
Written by Gilles Adrien and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
What’s it about?
A little girl, Miette, and a carnival strong man, One, team up to look for One’s brother, Denree, who’s been kidnapped by a mad scientist attempting to steal children’s dreams.
Review:
This strange, surreal film is unlike anything many will have seen. Certain comparisons to Jeunet’s Amelie are apt, but for the most part, La Cité des Enfants Perdus is a film all its own. It opens disconcertingly, with a young child visited by Santa. Then another comes down the chimney, followed by another and another. The room begins to spin, the numerous Santas grow increasingly distorted and threatening, and the music becomes increasingly ominous before cutting out to the boy and a strange man strapped in to a machine, large helmets attached to their heads.
Written by Gilles Adrien and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
What’s it about?
A little girl, Miette, and a carnival strong man, One, team up to look for One’s brother, Denree, who’s been kidnapped by a mad scientist attempting to steal children’s dreams.
Review:
This strange, surreal film is unlike anything many will have seen. Certain comparisons to Jeunet’s Amelie are apt, but for the most part, La Cité des Enfants Perdus is a film all its own. It opens disconcertingly, with a young child visited by Santa. Then another comes down the chimney, followed by another and another. The room begins to spin, the numerous Santas grow increasingly distorted and threatening, and the music becomes increasingly ominous before cutting out to the boy and a strange man strapped in to a machine, large helmets attached to their heads.
- 12/4/2011
- by Kate Kulzick
- SoundOnSight
<img src="http://www.quietearth.us/img/b/bunkerpl.jpg" align="right" hspace="10" vspace="2" class="pictureborder" /><font class="rt">Year:</font> 1981 <br /> <font class="rt">Directors:</font> Marc Caro/Jean-Pierre Jeunet<br /> <font class="rt">Writers:</font> Marc Caro/Jean-Pierre Jeunet/Gilles Adrien<br /> <font class="rt">IMDB:</font> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129805/">link</a><br /> <font class="rt">Amazon:</font> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jeunet-Caro-Collection-Jean-Claude-Dreyfus/dp/B0019GJ40Q/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1221841693&sr=8-2">link</a><br /> <font class="rt">Review by:</font> agentorange<br /> <font class="rt">Rating:</font> 9 out of 10<br /> <br /> Successful creative partnerships like the one that was forged between French auteurs Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet way back in 1974, are extremely rare in the film world but, when they do come along, they can yield some pretty amazing cinema. Of course, since partnering on The City of Lost Children, the gallic wonder twins have left the comforts of their shared creative womb and gone onto pursue their own projects (Jeunet tackling Amelie and A Very Long Engagement, and Caro the recently released scifi flick <a href="http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2008/05/02/SFL-08--Review-of-Marc-Caros-stunning-scifi-flick-Dante-01">Dante 01</a>). Recently, the good people at Optimum Releasing have put out a new collection called The Jeunet/Caro Collection which brings together their crucial tag-teams and allows us to looking back at their awe inspiring achievements. Of course, like most of you,...
- 9/26/2008
- QuietEarth.us
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