The City of Lost Children

The City of Lost Children French La cit des enfants perdus is a 1995 FrenchGermanSpanish science fantasy drama film directed by Marc Caro and JeanPierre Jeunet and starring Ron Perlman. The film is stylistically related to the previous and subsequent Jeunet films, Delicatessen and Amlie. The music score was composed by Angelo Badalamenti. It was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

Krank is both aided and hindered by his family Martha Mireille Moss, a woman with dwarfism uncle Irvin the voice of JeanLouis Trintignant, a talkative brain in a tank and six narcoleptic, identical clones, his brothers all played by Dominique Pinon. All of them were created by a bioengineering genius, who is conspicuously absent Martha to be his wife, Irvin for intellectual company, the clones to be his brothers and manual labour, and Krank to be his masterpiece. There is considerable argument amongst the clones as to who was the first one, the Original. They support themselves by supplying prosthetic eyes and ears to the cult which, the cult believes, give them the ability to see past an illusory world to a deeper reality. In return, the cult abducts children to be subjects for Kranks experiments. Krank is a genius but lacks the ability to dream, without which he is aging rapidly, so he uses a machine to steal childrens dreams for himself. However, he does not seem to understand that by kidnapping the children, he frightens them and causes them to have only nightmares, which are worthless to him.Conjoined twins known as the Octopus Genevive Brunet and Odile Mallet control the thieves guild, but have become distrustful of Miette when One accidentally bursts in and shows his strength while they are planning a heist, they hire him to help the children steal a large, heavy safe. The safe is successfully stolen but then lost into the harbour when One is distracted by a sign of Denrees kidnappers the Octopus then believes Miette has been holding out on them and has deserted to help One. They employ circus performer Marcello JeanClaude Dreyfus, who was their former boss and possible captor but is now apparently in their debt, to return One to them, and much to his own distaste he allows Miette to drown while rescuing One from the cult who have captured Miette and One attempting to rescue Denree, and plan to execute them both by drowning them in the harbour using a syste

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