The City of Lost Children [VHS]
by Marc Caro
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Actor: Briac Barthelemy, Genevi?ve Brunet, Guillaume Billod-Morel, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Marc CaroDirector: Marc Caro
Primary Contributor: Daniel Emilfork
Primary Contributor: Ron Perlman
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: French (Original Language), Analog; English (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 112 minutes
Release Date: 1996-07-24
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Sony Pictures Classics
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
VHS Movie Reviews of The City of Lost Children [VHS]
Movie Review: visual trip
Summary: 5 Stars
"Fairy tale for adults": I hear that a lot, that expression. "Pan's Labyrinth" comes to mind. The Brothers Grimm collection of folk tales does too. Well as has been remarked, LOTS of stuff comes to mind when considering a picture like this. The excellent spotlighted customer review lists some that came to my mind too: Fritz Lang, Freud, Carl Jung, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Jean Cocteau, the Brothers Quay. I'll add Jules Verne and Fellini. OK, Roger Ebert mentioned Verne. (Ebert is a national treasure.) But what to make of it? "The City of Lost Children" is mostly a visual trip and less any sort of interesting tale that begs being deciphered. Read into it what you will, if you feel the desire to do so. I myself have mostly just enjoyed the imagery and I think the film is an unabashed celebration of film as primarily a visual medium.
Summary of The City of Lost Children [VHS]
The fantastic visions of Belgian filmmakers Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet find full fruition in this fairy tale for adults. Evoking utopias and dystopias from Brazil to Peter Pan, Caro and Jeunet create a vivid but menacing fantasy city in a perpetually twilight world. In this rough port town lives circus strongman One (Ron Perlman), who wanders the alleys and waterfront dives looking for his baby brother, snatched from him by a mysterious gang preying upon the children of the town. Rising from the harbor is an enigmatic castle where lives the evil scientist Krank (Daniel Emilfork), who has lost the ability to dream and robs the nocturnal visions of the children he kidnaps, but receives only mad nightmares from the lonely cherubs. Other wild characters include the Fagin-like Octopus--Siamese twin sisters who control a small gang of runaways-turned-thieves--Krank's six cloned henchmen (all played by the memorable Dominique Pinon from Delicatessen), and a giant brain floating in an aquarium (voiced by Jean-Louis Trintignant). Caro and Jeunet are kindred souls to Terry Gilliam (who is a vocal fan), creating imaginative flights of fancy built of equal parts delight and dread, which seem to be painted on the screen in rich, dreamy colors. --Sean AxmakerArt House & International VHS Video
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