City of Lost Children, The
City of Lost Children, The
Medium Count 1
Medium Blu-ray
Link [+]
DVD Region 1
Running Time 112
Studio Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Theatrical Date 12/26/1994
Cast Perlman, Ron / Emilfork, Daniel / Vittet, Judith
Director Caro, Marc / Jeunet, Jean-Pierre
Original Title La cité des enfants perdus
Features 20th Anniversary Edition / All-new director-supervised and approved HD Master / Commentary with Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Actor Ron Perlman / The Making of The City of Lost Children / Archives of Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Interview with Jean-Paul Gaultier / Original Theatrical Trailers
Date Imported 12/18/2016
List Price $6.66
Rating 
Genre Fantasy / Science Fiction
Copy Count 1
Location SpookySeason
Tag France
IMDb Rating 77
The fantastic visions of Belgian filmmakers Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet find full fruition in this fairy tale for adults. Evoking utopias and dystopias from Brazil to Peter Pan, Caro and Jeunet create a vivid but menacing fantasy city in a perpetually twilight world. In this rough port town lives circus strongman One (Ron Perlman), who wanders the alleys and waterfront dives looking for his baby brother, snatched from him by a mysterious gang preying upon the children of the town. Rising from the harbor is an enigmatic castle where lives the evil scientist Krank (Daniel Emilfork), who has lost the ability to dream and robs the nocturnal visions of the children he kidnaps, but receives only mad nightmares from the lonely cherubs. Other wild characters include the Fagin-like Octopus--Siamese twin sisters who control a small gang of runaways-turned-thieves--Krank's six cloned henchmen (all played by the memorable Dominique Pinon from Delicatessen), and a giant brain floating in an aquarium (voiced by Jean-Louis Trintignant). Caro and Jeunet are kindred souls to Terry Gilliam (who is a vocal fan), creating imaginative flights of fancy built of equal parts delight and dread, which seem to be painted on the screen in rich, dreamy colors. --Sean Axmaker
