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Jack et la mécanique du coeur (2013)
www.imdb.com/title/tt1181840/
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This is everything I love and hate in foreign (language)/indie films, and also French music. Even though it might reward you with its freshness of another culture by not following the Hollywood's formulaic script writing, yet its quirky can also make you feel uncomfortable and left you unsatisfied sometimes.
The movie is a visual feast of great imagination. Poetic and dreamy. The graphical style has the French's soft, lighthearted and romantic touch to it. It has many original and interesting ideas, but also a dark, freaky edge, which makes it unsuitable for children yet refreshing for adults.
Well that's the catch. The parts that turn you off is, unfortunately, the underdeveloped story. It felt like a drag, it lacks tension and the ultimate line that the audience should be holding on to. Instead it felt distant, not to mention too old for children but too childish for adults. And the music, like French music generally, when it's good, it's really good, when it's weird, it's, well, like this movie. It's a weird mix of some mellow acoustic melodies and a modern bass line, sometimes even half way rap, rock and poetry!?! Not that I didn't enjoy some parts of some songs, it's just very frustrating.
Still, I'd recommend this to people who want something fresh, especially all the animation fans out there.
Trailer - a good one but only in French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvWNbxvmUaE
