Micmacs (film)

Micmacs is a 2009 French comedy film by French director JeanPierre Jeunet. Its original French title is MicMacs tirelarigot, Nonstop shenanigans or, literally, Intrigue His hearts content. The film is billed as a satire on the world arms trade. It premiered onSeptember 2009 at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival as a gala screening at Roy Thomson Hall.

Bazil hears gunfire and cars outside, opens the door of his shop, and is hit in the head by a stray bullet. A surgical team discusses whether or not to remove the bullet from his brain. Removing the bullet will risk damaging his brain further, while leaving it in will leave Bazil mostly healthy with the risk of dying suddenly at any moment. The head surgeon flips a coin and decides not to remove the bullet. Bazil returns to his job to find that he has been replaced. As he leaves, his replacement gives him a shell casing that she found from the bullet that had struck him. Bazil becomes homeless and lives on the streets of Paris for two months, before being adopted by a man named Slammer JeanPierre Marielle. Slammer brings Bazil to a cave carved in a trash dump, where a group of scavengers live. Bazil meets several new friends Elastic Girl Julie Ferrier is a contortionist, Mama Chow Yolande Moreau is a cook and leader of the crew, Remington Omar Sy is a former ethnographer who speaks in oldfashioned cliches, Buster Dominique Pinon is a human cannonball, Tiny Pete Michel Crmads is an artist who designs moving sculptures from scavenged trash, Slammer is a former convict and guillotine survivor, and Calculator MarieJulie Baup is a young woman who measures and calculates things with a glance. While scavenging for trash, Bazil discovers two office buildings and factories on opposite sides of a street. One is the arms manufacturer who built the land mine that killed Bazils father, and the other is the manufacturer who made the bullet that lodged in Bazils brain. Bazil decides to go inside, flips a coin, and chooses one of the offices. He asks to speak with the CEO, Nicolas Thibault De Fenouillet, but is immediately thrown out of the building. He crosses the street and manages to hear a speech by the other CEO, Franois Marconi.Bazil follows Marconi home and hangs a microphone down his chimney. He hears a phone conversation arranging a meeting between Marconi and associates

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