Wow. What a great movie. I can't say I knew exactly why everything was the way it was, but if you give into the absurdity of the world, it's a great ride.Visually it's a masterpiece. Brilliant lighting and colour, making the steam-punk world seem even more bizarre.
Too much time was spent adding new and creative oddities to the mix. An A.D.D. visual feast. It seemed once something odd had been seen, they felt the need to throw more at you. Although, each bizarre addition was well done.
Fine acting by the entire cast. Ron Pearlman portraying his character without knowing how to speak French. The children were well cast, and wonderfully unique looking people were in the other roles.
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who has done Delicatessen (1991), Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (1995) aka Amélie, and surprisingly, Alien : Resurrection (1997), a movie I must watch again.
The movie was co-directed by Marc Caro, who worked on Jeunet's other movies. I'm not sure to what extent each director was involved in the production, and wasn't able to find anything online. But I think Caro was mostly concerned with art design.
I'm going to have to watch this again to see if it becomes one of my favorites. I think the story could have been stronger with less attention focused on how odd a world it was.
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