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Micmacs

6.5

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Original title

Micmacs à tire-larigot

Year

2009

Running time

105 min.

Country

France

Director

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Screenwriter

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant

Cast

Music

Raphaël Beau

Cinematography

Tetsuo Nagata

Producer

Epithète Films, Tapioca Films, Warner Bros.

Genre

Comedy | Crime

Synopsis

Is it better to live with a bullet lodged in your brain, even if it means you might drop dead any time? Or would you rather have the bullet taken out and live the rest of your life as a vegetable? Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes? Is scrap metal worth more than landmines? Can you get drunk from eating waffles? Can a woman fit inside a refrigerator? What’s the human cannonball world record? Find out answers to these questions and more. A comedy in the vein of Delicatessen and Amélie.

Awards: 2009: César Awards: 3 Nominations

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Critics' reviews

"Spiced with melancholy and magic, Micmacs is an imaginative live-action film with the playfulness of an animation like Ratatouille."

Carrie Rickey: Philadelphia Inquirer
"There is no question that the heart of Micmacs is in the right place, but the movie is also a little thin."

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
"Highly visual but cold. It's undeniably inventive, but also relentlessly fey and self-consciously zany and, in terms of story, it moves with audacious slowness"

Mick LaSalle: San Francisco Chronicle
"Micmacs is an inventive romp punctuated by the kind of quirkiness Jeunet has brought to all his films."

James Berardinelli: ReelViews
"A spirited, imaginative spectacle that never quite takes flight."

Rene Rodriguez: Miami Herald
"At its best, Micmacs is a robust, enjoyably lunatic game."

Tasha Robinson: AV Club
"'Micmacs' is like a Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd movie where everybody is Buster or Harold (...) There is more invention in a single minute of Micmacs than there is in two hours or more of your average summer multiplex shaker (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"

Peter Howell: Toronto Star
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Micmacs

2009

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

6.5

(7,010)