Product Description

Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/24/2008 Run time: 112 minutes Rating: R

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4358 in DVD
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 1999-10-19
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 112 minutes

Amazon.com
The fantastic visions of Belgian filmmakers Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet find full fruition in this fairy tale for adults. Evoking utopias and dystopias from Brazil to Peter Pan, Caro and Jeunet create a vivid but menacing fantasy city in a perpetually twilight world. In this rough port town lives circus strongman One (Ron Perlman), who wanders the alleys and waterfront dives looking for his baby brother, snatched from him by a mysterious gang preying upon the children of the town. Rising from the harbor is an enigmatic castle where lives the evil scientist Krank (Daniel Emilfork), who has lost the ability to dream and robs the nocturnal visions of the children he kidnaps, but receives only mad nightmares from the lonely cherubs. Other wild characters include the Fagin-like Octopus--Siamese twin sisters who control a small gang of runaways-turned-thieves--Krank's six cloned henchmen (all played by the memorable Dominique Pinon from Delicatessen), and a giant brain floating in an aquarium (voiced by Jean-Louis Trintignant). Caro and Jeunet are kindred souls to Terry Gilliam (who is a vocal fan), creating imaginative flights of fancy built of equal parts delight and dread, which seem to be painted on the screen in rich, dreamy colors. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews

Incredible Movie
its just one of those movies that will entertain your brain.
and youll end up showing all your friends.

Very strange movie
I don't know what to think of this movie. The idea sounded interesting, a man who cannot dream taking children from the city so he can dream, but I spent the first 45 minutes of the movie trying to figure out what the heck is going on. Even after watching it, I still have no clue.heh.

All I can say is this movie is messed up.LOL. There were a lot of parts of the movie I didn't understand, what was up with the women twins (were they running a thieving ring made up of children?). Then there is the scene portraying a church and its congregation in some metallic looking warehouse all wearing eye pieces (they are referred to in the movie as Cyclops, but what were they?). The odd man stealing all the children and his weird family (composed of a few clones, an odd-looking woman, and a brain encased in a box filled with liquid and a megaphone so it can "speak").

This movie was a mix of plots all jumbled together and here's the movie for you! There was no coherent plot-line that I could easily follow and that added to my confusion and not understanding what was going on. I suppose it's appropriate to portray in a strange, surreal dream-like quality in keeping with the story in the movie, that of a man who can't dream.

Oh well, it is crazy, confusing, disturbing, vivid, and just what you'd imagine your dream or nightmare would look like if put to film. IMO, I didn't think the movie was that great, I thought it a little weird, but if you're still curious just rent it.

a must have movie for fans of weird films
awesome story !!!! even better cinematography !!! strangest cast of characters you will ever experience . there is no other movie out there that can ever compare with this . a true piece of art . stunning , dark , creepy and humorous at times