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MOVIE REVIEW: Micmacs Wins Us Over With Oddball Approach to Revenge!

Posted by   on June 12, 2010

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet is best known for the luminous Amelie – and the darkly comic Delicatessen – but they’re not the only fine films he’s made. His latest effort, Micmacs, is both a revenge flick and a caper movie. In this case, both revolve around the unfortunate Bazil [Dany Boone] – whose father is killed by a landmine while on assignment to the Moroccan desert to find and defuse them – and who winds up with a bullet in his brain as the result of a freak accident during a drive-by shooting.

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Grade: A-

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MOVIES: First Look: Micmacs – Amelie Director Throws in Everything Including the Kitchen Sink!

Posted by   on June 4, 2010

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet has already made his mark on the greater North American consciousness with the rapidly-coming-considered-a-classic, Amelie. If not for budgetary concerns, he might have repeated the feat with The Life of Pi, a film about a boy and tiger stranded in a lifeboat.

Since that never came to pass, Jeunet has taken the tale of a man named Bazil [Dany Boone] who has suffered at the hands of weapons makers – first, a piece of shrapnel from a mine in the desert makes him an orphan; second, a stray bullet has lodged in his brain – and thrown every fibre of his being into it. The result, judging from the trailer and several stills, is a caper flick unlike anything anyone has ever seen before.

Stills, links and details from the press release follow the jump.

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MOVIE REVIEW: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnasuss – Wonders of a Different Sort!

Posted by   on December 27, 2009

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We all know the story of how Heath Ledger’s death almost derailed Terry Gilliam’s latest film – and how three of Ledger’s friends [Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell] stepped in to finish the film after Gilliam tweaked the script to allow for their presences. The result, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, is one of Gilliam’s most accessible and intriguing films in years.

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The story involves a series of bets between former monk Parnassus [Christopher Plummer] and Mr Nick, aka The Devil [Tom Waits] that have led to Mr. Nick’s claim on Parnassus’ daughter, Valentina [Lily Cole] in a few days from the film’s opening moments. Parnassus and his daughter have a travelling show that allows anyone who’s willing to take the chance to have their imagination unfettered in a world on the other side of a peculiar mirror. Also part of the presentation is Anton [Andrew Garfield] and the sarcastic – and almost always right Percy [Verne Troyer].

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