The City of Lost Children
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Movie Reviews of The City of Lost Children
Movie Review: STUNNING!
Summary: 5 Stars
Fleas that have been trained to kill? Evil twin sisters joinedat the hip? Menacing cyclops with green vision? A floating brain in atank...with a migraine? Six comical clones and the original who created them? An oil-rig domain protected by a tightly -packed minefield? Costumes by Jean-paul Gaultier? A little boy who is always eating? Krank - a man who can't dream so he steals dreams off of children? The most amazing artwork ever put to celluloid? oh....and the effects are fittingly perfect...A person could want no more It is a film that will pull you in to it's weirdness and hold you like a dream. You will feel that you have to watch it again just for the effect it has on you.
HIGHLIGHT: MIETTE is being strangled by ONE, as she cries a tear flies from her face and causes a chain of events that result in the electricity of the town being cut off thus disabling the lighthouse which in turn sees a huge cargo ship crash into the harbour and comes to a stop inches from the twin sisters who are watching the events...A tear saves MIETTE
GREAT FILM. END
Movie Review: Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
When first viewing the movie I was originally a little takin aback. The movie starts off bizarre and gets worst. However it is an incredible movie. The world follows it's own twisted logic which enchants the viewer and draws them deeper into the director's vision. The movie starts off with the main character One and his young companion. Shortly the companion gets takin and One starts off in search of his young friend. He goes deeper and deeper into a strange and twisted world where he meets a young girl of about nine, a couple of evil twins, a gang of cyclopse, a group of clones, and a floating brain in a tank of green water.
In the end it turns out his friend has been kidnapped by an evil scientist who cannot dream. Consequently he steals the dreams of young children so he can sleep.
The entire movie combines to create a sort of fairly tale nightmare. It combines otherworldly beauty with twisted evil to create a haunting dreamscape. Overall this movie is a must see.
Movie Review: A feast for the eye and mind
Summary: 5 Stars
There is a plot here, but it almost doesn't matter. This movie is a visual spectacle, and an exercise in the bizarre.
The people are a big part of it. The evil twins (they're both evil), the cyclops crew, Bismuth, and especially Krank, they are all comic-book exaggerations but also real actors. The city is a maze of alleys filled with grit and smog, stairs, and bridges (over what?) - another big part of the atmosphere. The gadgetry goes over the top, somewhere between steam-punk and tech noir, with a menacing complexity that would have Tim Burton sobbing in envy. The rubbery nightmare sequences are good, but serve mostly to focus attention on camera work elsewhere that distorts scenes to ominous effect. There are some amusing moments - the best is near the end, a roller-coaster ride of cause and effect, triggered by a teardrop.
That's about it, really - an amazing visual experience, like the dark side of a comic book, but done brilliantly.
//wiredweird
Movie Review: A Departure from the norm
Summary: 5 Stars
A young boy is kidnapped so that a monstrous villain can extract his pleasant dreams, dreams that he himslef can longer have. This film has the unique quality of originality and quirkiness which is so lacking in Hollywood lackluster product these days. It has a capturing colorful gothic feel to it and cast of characters provide a backdrop every bit as effective as the wonderful stage sets that take place in an underwater laboratory, a seedy harbor side slum area and a number of other memorable locations.
Although the film is subtitled, I tend to forget this as I get into the first five minutes of the film, and most of the humour is clearly not lost, as in a series of scenes where the villains numerous identical cloned children argue amongst themselves about who is the "original".
Another reviewer compared it Pi, which for originality and creativity is about right, but I would compare it more along the lines of a slightly more cheerful and utlimately redeeming Brazil.
Movie Review: Extraordinary visions; Dickens meets Dick
Summary: 5 Stars
A wonderfully strange film, with a beautiful story (a love story?), crisp cinematography, amazing production design, and a rich score by Angelo Badalementi (he composed music for all of David Lynch's films). Certainly not for the faint of heart or those who like simple-minded blockbusters.Like Amelie, which co-director Jean-Pierre Jeunet did on his own, but with more darkness and danger (which seems, in retrospect, to have been supplied by co-director Marc Caro, which strangely has the effect of making this film all the more enjoyable. I don't want to spoil the plot's many twists and turns, but I will say that the film is set in a post-apocalyptic world with ugly one-eyed robots, plucky orphans, evil twin sisters, clones, a giant brain in a vat, and a scientist who is aging impossibly quickly because he can't dream, so he must steal the dreams of others.
It's a little like Charles Dickens meets Phillip K. Dick.
Not to be missed under any circumstances.