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
Here we are again with another round of Everyone's A Critic, the feature that lets You tell the viewing public what rocks, sucks or just barely passes for entertainment, right here on the front page of Fangoria.com.
Todays review comes from Matt Molgaard, who takes us on a nostalgic trip back to the cult classic City Of Lost Children. And remember, as with any review, there are possible spoilers ahead...
Back in 1995, Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet teamed up to direct one of most visually stunning horror films in recent memory. City Of Lost Children is the tale of mad scientist Krank, who is aging at an accelerated rate due to the fact that he can no longer dream. Krank builds an army of ‘cyclops’ to kidnap the cities children in the hopes of claiming the children’s dreams as his own, thus reversing the accelerated aging. Krank makes...
Todays review comes from Matt Molgaard, who takes us on a nostalgic trip back to the cult classic City Of Lost Children. And remember, as with any review, there are possible spoilers ahead...
Back in 1995, Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet teamed up to direct one of most visually stunning horror films in recent memory. City Of Lost Children is the tale of mad scientist Krank, who is aging at an accelerated rate due to the fact that he can no longer dream. Krank builds an army of ‘cyclops’ to kidnap the cities children in the hopes of claiming the children’s dreams as his own, thus reversing the accelerated aging. Krank makes...
- 12/19/2008
- Fangoria
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