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Summary: Watched it twice in one night
Review: I rented this to test out the DVD Player on my PC, and I found that I had to reformat my hard drive to get the DVD Player to work.It was worth it. The story and the imagery were so amazing, the characters so compelling that I watched right over again (I never do that). The performances were amazing -- Perlman's simple sailor/strongman, the Clones, Krank, The twin sisters (Octopus), the children, especially Miette. Gaultier's costumes were subdued (for him), but so perfect for this film. If it weren't for the likes of Jeunet and Caro, I'd been thinking about writing off French cinema. Maybe it's not too late.
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Summary: A brilliant, beautiful fairy-tale
Review: Everything about this film is simply amazing. The well-defined characters, the brilliant costumes and sets, the film score, the effects - everything. Watching "The City of Lost Children" is like seeing the very best of Terry Gilliam's films mixed with equal parts "The Wizard of Oz," "The Dark Crystal," and "Labyrinth." You will never forget seeing this film.
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Summary: The best film of 1995, 1996, and maybe 1981.
Review: No other film, save maybe Un Chien Andalou, has ever captured the feeling of dreaming as beautifully as this. Quite easily one of my favorite movies of all time. On a different note, I don't think that comparisons to the Crow and Dark City are entirely accurate because the tone of City of Lost Children is so different. This isn't a revenge fantasy or a nightmare populated by strangers but a fable. Every time I see it I feel like a kid again.
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Summary: reality is a fiction in disguise
Review: you seldom encounter a movie that has a very simple yet interesting story that is well rendered for viewing with a basic fairy tale structure and the finishing of an intellectual-dreamy-fictional reality of visual execution. from the editing, color grading, directing, cinematography, casting, production design, musical scoring and other more major small details that supports the backbone of the film...it is a classic. imagine Dark City, Brazil, tim burton, dark crstal then oliver twist.
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Summary: surreal
Review: This film was very artistic and more surreal than anything! I did not understand it fully, and anyone who has watched it who comprehends it, please tell me! I have watched DELICATESSAN also and knew that they had to have the same director. I love surreal artsy missunderstood movies such as these. The plot that I did understand fascinated me, it was like a childhood nightmare.
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Summary: Terror Tale probe into THE UNCONSCIOUS...
Review: Directors Caro and Jeunet have created a terrifying journey into the depths of what Jung called THE UNCONSCIOUS. Here are your distorted archetypes...the warped Animus ("Scientist" Krank and his disembodied brain buddy) and stunted or schackled Anima (the dwarf "princess"; the twisted Twins)...rising from the abyss to cannibalize and gorge on INNOCENCE and harmony. The opening Santa Claus sequence is terrifying and artistically perverse. Aubrey Beardsley would have loved it and applauded its appropriateness as the opening to this cinematic revelation in the aesthetics of EVIL. Of course, "the children" are lost and of course their rescuer (Ron Perlman) cannot "save" them, but only drag their "dreamless" shells back to THE FIRST CIRCLE...he is neither Dante, nor Virgil...but this is a trip to Hell and (maybe)back. The logic of the story is that of the Nightmare; it is perfectly coherrent as such. Why the Directors would make such a film...or anyone claim to enjoy it, eludes me. My concluding judgment on the project concurs with that of Little Brother. He burps with unabashed insolence because this pretentious, deliberately noxious "head trip" leaves little else to say......
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Summary: Great acting, scenery, and music
Review: If you liked The Crow, or Dark City, then you will enjoy the atmosphere of this film. The special effects were simply amazing and the music was well tuned to the style of the movie. Watch it, and realize how much other movies stink.
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Summary: .
Review: In terms of visual atmosphere, dynamic aesthetics, sheer imagination, and artistically inspirational qualities, this gets 4 stars. The only things keeping it down from the 5 star mark are the occasionally nerve-grating wackiness and the general incoherence of the storyline. The story that *is* there is fairly interesting, but I can certainly say that if Jeunet and Caro put as much into the script and the development of the characters as they did the production design, this might well be the greatest movie ever made. Not that the characters don't work, to an extent, and not that the story doesn't; it's just irritatingly chaotic and intangible at times. Still a must-see. Beware the dubbed version.
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Summary: WOW
Review: Trite but true: can't say enough about this movie, as well as the earlier "Delicatessen" - imaginative characters and contrasting textures - in a lush, dark, gorgeous world - inspiring - a 'fairy tale' without pastels. Just see it!
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Summary: Incredible Images on film
Review: This movie has one of the best atmosphears ever, scenary, Color's, Images, Caracters and city's created in this film are a dream. A real artistic inspiration.
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