I've watched some of the best of live-action French cinema, but I've never seen an animated French feature (produced by Luc Besson produced, no less).
I didn't think I could love French cinema any more than I do. More reviews of recent releases can be found at our website. The music is lovely and moving and the English lyrics keep up. While adequate I do wish I could have listened to the songs as they were written and the initially cast French actors. Unable to find the original French language version with English subtitles I was consigned to viewing the English dubbed version. We don't actually know why this 19th century setting is so magical but it is imaginative enough to not care, especially when Jack lands at the carnival. The characters are fresh and inexplicably bewitchingly fantastic – from a a bespectacled feline with metallic whiskers, a man with a xylophonic spine, to an angelic woman (women?) with wings and two heads. While CGI, the animation has a unique marionette picturebook characteristic. The animation is dark and Gothic, decidedly Burtonesque with a Henry Selick or Laika quality yet simultaneously original. Some would say the adventitious plot is careless and designless but I think that is where the artistry lies.
#Jack and the cuckoo clock heart full
The poetic narrative twists and turns and Jack's troubles are Shakespearean, full of misguided choices and fallacious offenses. The romance is doomed as his adopted mother Madeline informs him a single kiss could stop his ticking heart. Not only that, this melancholic boy turned tormented teen falls in love for a girl with rose tendrils as hair who is visually impaired from crying tears of ice. Malzieu's Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart is a hopeless love story of a morose young fellow cursed with a faulty cuckoo heart. Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart is a fanciful tale from creator Mathias Malzieu. Jack is a boy who with a heart condition and mustn't feel any emotion in excess, you see he has a cuckoo clock for a heart. This whimsical animated french film about love is a delightful treat.
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