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Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cast: Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Nicolas Marie, Jean- Pierre Marielle, Julie Ferrier
Run Time: 105 minutes
Country: France
Year: 2009
Language: French with English subtitles
Rating: PG (Violence, sexually suggestive scene)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s gorgeously romantic Le Fabuleux Destin
d’Amélie Poulain is unquestionably one of the most beloved
and popular films of the last decade. With Micmacs à tirelarigot
– an audience favourite at the 2009 Toronto International
Film Festival® – Jeunet’s amazing visual vocabulary and
hyperactive imagination is used to devastating effect.
Drawing on one of France’s most popular screen stars,
the incorrigible Dany Boon from the comedy megahit
Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis, as well as a cast of some of the
country’s best-known actors, Jeunet turns on the afterburners
in this searing piece of romantic filmmaking set against
the storm clouds of warring arms dealers. Boon plays the
role of Bazil, a man who was orphaned as a youngster when
his soldier father was killed by a roadside bomb. Now working
in a video store and trying to find his place in the world,
Bazil is hit by a stray bullet in a freak drive-by shooting
incident. Emerging from hospital, he finds himself jobless and
penniless, but good fortune appears in the form of an ex-con,
Tire-Larigot. The ingenious salvage artist ekes out a marginal
existence living in a scrap dump together with a tirelessly
good-humoured and resourceful group of misfits. Charmed
and overwhelmed by the hospitality he receives, Bazil turns
the dump into a warm underground home full of magical
tools and sculptures made from discarded junk. Meanwhile,
an opportunity to get even with the arms manufacturers
who killed his father and left him with a bullet in the head
keeps Bazil busy plotting sweet revenge.
The kinetic level of invention and narrative so familiar
to Jeunet lovers is on full display in Micmacs, the film that
revels in contemporary contrasts. While the rich arms
dealers scheme away and make weapons, Bazil and his
rag-tag band of friends create objects to delight and charm.
Along the way, Bazil finds romance amid the craziness of
the modern world.
“Micmacs is a pleasing original comedy with charm to
spare: Jean Pierre Jeunet’s breeziest film to date, even as
it delivers a strong message against landmines and arms
dealing.” – Mike Goodridge, Screen International
Reviews: www.mrqe.com/movies/m100086007?s=1
Official Site: www.lovefilm.com/micro/micmacs.html
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