FILM REVIEW MICMACS > <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="Humanism, atheism, television, media studies, vampires, cthulhu, comics, graphic novels, battle, Moston, goths, night clubs, food, drink, religion, sects, guru, brainwashing, meditation, fun, philosophy, literature, time, Judge Dredd, Dr. Who, flash fiction, fantasy, comedy, beer, pubs, travel, art, history, Civil War Re-enactment, humour, erotica, short stories, links, quicksand, science fiction, SF, trivia, abstracts, haiku, poetry slams, poetry, blogging, myspace, belief, doubt, cynicism, free will, Eastercon, costuming, photographs, scepticism, existentialism, biography, autobiography, books, films, cinema, scripts, Manchester, links to other sites, Arthur Chappell"> <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Atheism, Religious cults, erotica, humour, Civil War Re-enactment, history, Manchester England, humour, philosophy, book and film reviews."> <script language="JavaScript1.2" src="http://www.altavista.com/static/scripts/translate_engl.js"></script> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <link rel=File-List href="./film.review-micmacs_files/filelist.xml">  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:36.0pt'> <div class=Section1> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> FILM REVIEW – MICMACS (2009) <o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'>Lovely surreal French comedy drama with a great deal of excitement and more heart than any other film I’ve seen. Micmacs à tire-larigot, (to give it its full French title), deals with an unlikely band of eccentric, genuinely lovable heroes who set out to discredit and destroy two major French arms manufacturing conglomerates, in a humane fashion. <o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'>Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, (Alien 4, Amelie, Delicatessen & A Very Long Engagement) among others, this film begins when Basil, (Dany Boon) a mild mannered shop keeper, is shot accidentally with a stray bullet by passing gangsters. The bullet hits him in the head but narrowly misses his brain, though doctors are unable to remove it. Taken as dead, he finds on recovery that his job has been given away, so he loses income and home overnight. <o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'>He is soon taken in by an extremely eclectic group of circus performers who scavenge for metals they can recycle and sell. They include a former human cannonball, who obsesses about the record he broke in the 1970’s, and a young vivacious lady contortionist Julie Ferrier, in a very funny performance, given to hiding in fridges and boxes. <o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'>When Basil starts single-handedly plotting the downfall of the arms giant who made the bullet he now has in his head, and their rival, who’s landmines killed his father, his friends discover what he’s up to and insist on helping out. What follows is essentially a very funny Mission Impossible series of games that slowly ruin both businesses and ultimately force the owners to confess to their less than legal trading activity. <o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'>Some scenes are staged with chaplineque silent comedy and serious tension, with some brilliant subtle sight gags, and others run several unlikely but beautifully joined situations at once, such as the hero driving a truck full of bombs stolen from an arms factory for dumping at sea while wearing a welding mask full of wasps and with his angry friend on the outside holding onto the truck windshield further blocking his view.<o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'>The finale is amazing, as the villains are finally captured and subjected to a life or death situation that might or might not be all it seems. A genuinely beautiful engaging heart warming film. <o:p></o:p></h1> Link – the film on the International Movie Data-base <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149361/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149361/</a> Copyright. 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Create Your Badge FILM REVIEW MICMACS > <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="Humanism, atheism, television, media studies, vampires, cthulhu, comics, graphic novels, battle, Moston, goths, night clubs, food, drink, religion, sects, guru, brainwashing, meditation, fun, philosophy, literature, time, Judge Dredd, Dr. Who, flash fiction, fantasy, comedy, beer, pubs, travel, art, history, Civil War Re-enactment, humour, erotica, short stories, links, quicksand, science fiction, SF, trivia, abstracts, haiku, poetry slams, poetry, blogging, myspace, belief, doubt, cynicism, free will, Eastercon, costuming, photographs, scepticism, existentialism, biography, autobiography, books, films, cinema, scripts, Manchester, links to other sites, Arthur Chappell"> <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Atheism, Religious cults, erotica, humour, Civil War Re-enactment, history, Manchester England, humour, philosophy, book and film reviews."> <script language="JavaScript1.2" src="http://www.altavista.com/static/scripts/translate_engl.js"></script> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <link rel=File-List href="./film.review-micmacs_files/filelist.xml">  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:36.0pt'> <div class=Section1> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> FILM REVIEW – MICMACS (2009) <o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'>Lovely surreal French comedy drama with a great deal of excitement and more heart than any other film I’ve seen. Micmacs à tire-larigot, (to give it its full French title), deals with an unlikely band of eccentric, genuinely lovable heroes who set out to discredit and destroy two major French arms manufacturing conglomerates, in a humane fashion. <o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'>Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, (Alien 4, Amelie, Delicatessen & A Very Long Engagement) among others, this film begins when Basil, (Dany Boon) a mild mannered shop keeper, is shot accidentally with a stray bullet by passing gangsters. The bullet hits him in the head but narrowly misses his brain, though doctors are unable to remove it. Taken as dead, he finds on recovery that his job has been given away, so he loses income and home overnight. <o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'>He is soon taken in by an extremely eclectic group of circus performers who scavenge for metals they can recycle and sell. They include a former human cannonball, who obsesses about the record he broke in the 1970’s, and a young vivacious lady contortionist Julie Ferrier, in a very funny performance, given to hiding in fridges and boxes. <o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'>When Basil starts single-handedly plotting the downfall of the arms giant who made the bullet he now has in his head, and their rival, who’s landmines killed his father, his friends discover what he’s up to and insist on helping out. What follows is essentially a very funny Mission Impossible series of games that slowly ruin both businesses and ultimately force the owners to confess to their less than legal trading activity. <o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'>Some scenes are staged with chaplineque silent comedy and serious tension, with some brilliant subtle sight gags, and others run several unlikely but beautifully joined situations at once, such as the hero driving a truck full of bombs stolen from an arms factory for dumping at sea while wearing a welding mask full of wasps and with his angry friend on the outside holding onto the truck windshield further blocking his view.<o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></h1> <h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:23.25pt'>The finale is amazing, as the villains are finally captured and subjected to a life or death situation that might or might not be all it seems. A genuinely beautiful engaging heart warming film. <o:p></o:p></h1> Link – the film on the International Movie Data-base <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149361/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149361/</a> Copyright. 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