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flick pick | The City of Lost Children 1995 Directed by: Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet Starring: Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Dominique Pinon Language: French with English subtitles Look for it at the video store under: Foreign Watch it when you’re in the mood for something:  artsy-fartsy, fantastical

Plot synopsis In a fabulous, twisted-fairytale world, children are disappearing off the streets, rounded up by the evil genius Krank who, cursed to never have dreams of his own, tries desperately to steal those of the children he kidnaps. When a soft-hearted, slow-witted circus strongman named One sees his young friend Denree being carted off one night by Krank’s army of Cyclops, he sets out to save the boy. Along the way, he meets up with a jaded little girl named Miette, head of a gang of orphan child thieves, whose cold, hardened heart begins to melt a little in One’s kind presence, and who joins him in his quest to save Denree and bring an end to Krank’s reign of terror.

Review One of the most visually stunning movies I’ve ever seen. Jeunet and Caro, directors of the similarly bizarre Delicatessen, have fashioned a lush dreamscape of a world … makes me wish I could hire them to provide art direction for my dreams and nightmares, to sculpt my sleepworld this gorgeously and to populate it with such odd, wonderful characters.

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