I suggest you watch Delicatessen next – the duo’s first feature-length film. They make a great team. Actually they’re a troika: the writer Gilles Adrien has worked very closely with them on most of their stuff.
I suggest you watch Delicatessen next – the duo’s first feature-length film together. They make a great team. Actually they’re a troika: the writer Gilles Adrien has worked very closely with them on most of their films and shorts.
It’s about growing up and how adults use and prey on the innocent… something like that
two of my favorites
It’s Dark City meets Oliver Twisted. I was blown away on first seeing it years ago, I thought it was visually stunning, humorous, dark and just a fun film to watch. It’s the only film from Jeunet & Caro that I’ve seen, guess I’ll have to check out Delicatessen (always meant to). What else have they done?
I plan on seeing Amelie next. As far as I know that is their last film. I have delicatessen at home and plan on watching it someday. I must have a small mountain of films that I find at discount prices that just sit there until I’m ready to see them. It’s a very simple arrangement; wrapped and unwrapped. When I’m ready to see the film I take the wrapping off and it’s a done deal.
My roommate and I were having a conversation today about subtitles vs. dubs. Subtitles are the way to go, but this movie proves an interesting exception: the English dub I first saw it made the movie all the more creepy, hilarious, and weird. The English voice actors put these teeny, high pitched voices on all of the characters except for Ron Perlman, who got this gruff dog voice instead. And it worked.
The scene when the guy becomes a cyclops and sees the girl is something that’s not replaceable on its original recording. “Une femmmmme!” did not hit nearly the level of sleaziness and delirium that the English voice-acting, “A FEEEEEEE-mayyylllle!” hit note perfect. I still quote that in my head sometimes when I hear someone say, “What is that?” “THAT, IS A FE-MALE!”
But anyway, this was a movie I saw a while before Amelie and did not know to put them together for a long time. I still like it more than even Delicatessen et al. Whereas I have a fondness for Jeunet in general, this is his (and Caro’s) best. It’s everything Tim Burton and Guillermo Del Toro want to be… fantastic, surreal, detailed, fairy tale, dark, and enchanting, but the fact that it actually lives on in your mind like some bad dream you had as a three year old sort of sends it riveting through your subconscious a little more.
—PolarisDiB
Jeunet’s best film by a long way.
Maurice Gianesin
I saw my first film by Jeunet & Caro last night. It was entitled The City of Lost Children. I happened onto a review by Roger Ebert and I’m with him; I have no idea what the film is about. I was moved by the relationship between Ron Perlman and the little French girl whos name fails me at the moment. It was a fantastic film. Full of fantasy, the making of myth and legend. Ron Perlman must have been young when he made this film. I’m a big Hellboy fan and was suprised to see him as capable an actor as he was in Lost Children.
I would see the film again except this time I would pay more attention to the language instead of the props and special effects.