The City of Lost Children = : La Cité des Enfants Perdus

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Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	DVD FLC-FRE City	1-week checkout	Due 04-25-2024

Features include theatrical trailer; production notes; talent files; commentary by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Ron Perlman; costume design gallery by Jean-Paul Gaultier; and production sketch gallery.
Originally made as a motion picture in 1995 in France with the participation of German and Spanish production companies.
Side A: Widescreen version (1.85:1 ratio); side B: Full-screen version formatted to fit a TV.
Ron Perman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Genevieve Brunet, Odile Mallet, Mireille Mossé, Serge Merlin, Francois Hadji-Lazaro, Rufus, Ticky Holgado.
This fantastically-twisted fairy tale is chock-full of curious characters and special effects. A sad and heartbroken madman, Krank, is aging prematurely because he can't dream. He kidnaps little children, hoping that eventually he will find a way to steal their sleeping thoughts. The story takes the form of a quest, as a sentimental harpooner-turned-fairground strongman, One, sets out to find his young brother on dilapidated oil rig. He soon falls in love with the gutsy nine-year old girl (who is head of the orphan gang), and together they run a gauntlet of fantastical dangers as they join hearts and hands to save a small boy's dreams from the madman's master plan.
DVD (2-sided), NTSC, hi-fi Dolby surround stereo.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

bizarre submitted by KOH on August 27, 2017, 9:02pm Dark and bizarre and heartwarming and creepy all in one!

C'est bizarre submitted by majean on July 22, 2022, 4:01pm The acting and storytelling is good, albeit quirky and sometimes hard to follow.