The City of Lost Children
by Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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Actor: Briac Barthelemy, Genevi?ve Brunet, Guillaume Billod-Morel, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Marc CaroDirector: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Brand: PERLMAN,RON
Primary Contributor: Daniel Emilfork
Primary Contributor: Ron Perlman
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-10-19
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
DVD Reviews of The City of Lost Children
DVD 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. DVD Review: Crazy, Creepy, Beautiful.
Summary: 4 Stars
I came to this film reminiscent of the time I first fell in love with Amelie, thinking it would be another fantastical feast for the eyes. I was wrong - but only to a degree. From the get-go I was convinced I'd been taking some drugs and the beginning brought be back to the crawling baby scene in Trainspotting. Scared and disturbed, I was still intrigued. The more I watched the more I became engrossed in the characterization and yes - the beautiful, yet dull use, of reds and greens in the imagery. Ultimately, its plot is unforgettable and mesmerizing, but Ron Perlman's attempt at speaking French is a little bothersome and weird. It made me wonder if they made him a slow, lovable brute only after they heard him speak the language. Nevertheless, he doesn't speak as much as I'd thought he would and his acting is still wonderful and well-placed for this film. Rent it when you're feeling strange, curious and all-around adventurous. DVD Review: Might be overrated.
Summary: 4 Stars
I liked this movie but I wouldn't recommend buying it. Rent it or find someone who has a copy to borrow. I just didn't think it was as entertaining as everyone says it is.DVD Review: story will hold youre breath
Summary: 5 Stars
ive played the game in 1997 n playstation , now i watched the movie , amazing story line , great atmospher , wonder if they will remake it , itll be good hit for bluckbuster , .DVD Review: Movie Flaw
Summary: 3 Stars
Both times I viewed this Dvd it Skipped midway through viewing and the screen was frozen for about a minute. Besides this it played well the rest of the way through.
Description of The City of Lost Children
A strongman and a little girl try to save a small boy's dream.Genre: Foreign Film - French
Rating: R
Release Date: 28-SEP-1999
Media Type: DVD
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 Axmaker
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