Just caught this one last night... craziness. such a beautiful, fucked up movie. the cinematography is awesome, and this movie has quite possibly the coolest set I've ever seen. every character in the movie is extremely strange, and the movie is full of fucked up ideas/actions/etc. french movie that's subtitled, and after watching the whole movie I'm still not sure what it's about or what I saw, but it's such a masterpiece regardless that I'll definitely be watching it way more in the future.
[quote]It's so bizarre that it's beautiful; it's so illogical that it's funny; it's so dark that it's so sweet. That's The City of the Lost Children. The plot it's that the evil -and weird- Krank (Daniel Emilfork) kidnap children to stole their dreams due to the lack of his ability of dream. Or at least he did it, until it came One (Ron Perlman), in the search of his adoptive little brother, aided by Miette (Judith Vittet), a street smart orphan child.
In technical aspects it's a master piece. The decoration give a baroque sensation of always being in small places, yet it's a full city populated of bizarre characters as the story itself.
The acting it's great. I'm quiet impressed for the flawless french that Ron Perlman show us, he's just simply astounding. I cannot say less of Judith Vittet, that being a child in that time she was a tremendous actress. The two have a good chemistry as a girl mature as an adult and a grow up man with the innocence of a kid.
I can't say that this is a movie that everyone would like, because it's not. It have a little of nonsense that might be not of the like of all the public. And all the dark atmosphere might be a little suffocating. So, take the risk and watch it, and then decide: you love it, or you hate it.[/quote]
[quote]Trivia: To achieve the slightly skewed color scheme of the movie, the actors were made up in white face and the color palette corrected until they were flesh-toned.[/quote]
5 huge pickles to a movie that I barely understoood. you must get it. you'll be hooked within 60 seconds.
[url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112682/[/url]
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