La Cité des Enfants Perdus (The City of Lost Children) (you can tell I love the visuals)
Tonight, on our cinematic Christmas tour de force, we saw "La Cité des Enfants Perdus" a movie that I unfortunately did not know about. It is an extrordinary movie of nightmarish images. "That mastery of imagery and montage is what keeps Jeunet and Caro's film from being a mere clutter of dazzling images. The City of Lost Children is something of a fable set in a city in either the future or an alternate reality. The movie has to do with a scientist named Krank (Daniel Emilfork), who is aging prematurely because he lacks the ability to dream. Fighting to reverse the aging process, he sends his blind minions out to kidnap the city's most potent dreamers—the children—and bring them back so he can invade the children's dreams and make them his own."
After seeing this movie I am fascinated by the films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro. Most recently Jean-Pierre Jeunet create Amélie, another of my recent favorite movies. Researching the film makers I found they also did Delicatessen (1991), a cult favorite in France which presents a post-apocalyptic black comedy about cannibalism! What a treat! :)
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