A group of homeless plot revenge against a weapon manufacturer.
Jean Pierre Jeunet is a visionary genius. There is a thin line that goes from him trough Terry Gilliam to the German expressionism of Fritz Lang’s “Nosferatu”.
What is so remarkable about him is how he manages to create a complete autonomous world. He goes beyond the simple and boring magic of special effects to a peculiar place where the whole movie is the special effect. He is pure cinema.
It’s really a shame then that the story, concocted as usual by Jeunet himself, doesn’t manage to hold everything together. The title “Micsmacs a Tire Larigot” translates to “non-stop shenanigans” and it is really a literal description of the movie. The whole film is an endless concatenation of shenanigans, incredible and amazing ones I must admit, but it’s missing the emotional heart of “Amelie” and “A very long engagement”. This is a big problem in a film like this because when everything is so artificial we need something to hold on, to follow.
This is still a good movie, but it could have been much better.
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