Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet
In a futuristic city, a daemonic scientist named Krank kidnaps children to tap into their dreams.
DVD Release Date: October 19, 1999
Stats: 3,507 reviews
Jenet & Caro are masters of cinema, this is a great follow up to their superb Delicatessen. A stunning film with some great characters and beautiful sets.
A mad genius is stealing the dreams of children in a fairy tale city; dim strongman Ron Perlman teams up with a streetwise urchin to get his kidnapped "little brother" back from the fiend. A triumph of the imagination: an amazingly detailed, weird, yet cohesive universe, with tw...( read more)
City Of Lost Children is a hard film to review. I love directors like Del Toro, Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. These are filmmakers that try to push the levels of imagination that we expect from movies and trust me as a visual experience Jeunet makes something ...( read more)
Absolutely amazing to watch, but what's happening? I'm not sure, good thing it's got subs...
Still not sure...
Beautiful, hilarious, and extremely twisted. One of the most creative films I've ever seen.
Here's a film which could only come from France. It's beautifully bizzare, witty, and quite dark at the same time.
Jeunet & Caro create an amazingly rich and beautiful alternate world, perfect for delving in to the fabric of humanity - or what makes us human, and what it is to be a child. The surreal design carries through to the music, and phenomenal performances by the entire cast. A trul...( read more)
Did I just watch a Tim Burton movie? Wait no, it was in French!
This movie was interesting, scary, disgusting, exactly as nightmares should be. But it had its weak points as well. I found it difficult to hang on to the story.
The originality was there but it just couldn'...( read more)
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