Culture

Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Rialto
(4/5)

 
 
I've never been to Paris, and Micmacs does nothing to disprove my theory that the city is laden with visual splendour which could have only been designed by some sort of film-set deity. Alongside the grimily beautiful Parisian locations, the film's characters are something from the deepest nooks of Jeunet's incredible imagination. Bazil, our protagonist, strives to bring down the ammunition manufacturers who built the bullet that ended up in his brain as a result of an armed scuffle outside his video store. He was lucky enough to live through the ordeal but unlucky enough to lose his job. He begins busking (as every broke French person does) and fate brings him to a collective of inventors who turn rubbish into beautiful inventions. He enlists them to help him bring down the ammunition manufacturers. If it sounds quirky, it is. The bulk of the story is what follows on from here. All I can suggest is if you like beautiful pictures, French humour, witty traps, wonderful story or escapism then do yourself a solid and check this out.