- Micmacs
- OPENING: 05/28/2010
- STUDIO: Epithete Films
- RUN TIME:105 min
- ACCOMPLICES:
Trailer, Official Site
The Charge
Like Ocean’s Eleven meets Lord of War. But, you know, in French.
Opening Statement
I entered Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s world like a lot of other people – through the movie Amelie. It was here that I first experienced the whimsy, the wacky, and the wonderful things that go on inside Monsieur Jeunet’s head. He is the French equivalent of the Coen Bros with David Fincher’s camera minus the pessimistic skepticism plus a heaping dollop of syrupy sugary quirk. His characters are always interesting. Even with the uninteresting ones he finds something intriguing to draw out of them. His frames are always alive; he chooses the most interesting camera angles, packed with details and information. After Amelie I looked back at Jean-Pierre’s filmography – Delicatessen and City of Lost Children but I didn’t have good reactions, probably because they were darker then I was expecting. I do need to go back and look at them again. I skipped Aliens 4, mainly on principle, and A Very Long Engagement is on my DVD shelf next to The Usual Suspects. That said, whenever I have an opportunity to revisit Jeunet in his land of fantasy with his band of merry miscreants, I will do so. His imagination makes me imagine.