The City of Lost Children

Ok not your normal si fi movie it as mad professors ,cyclops,and children running around as thieves ?? Beautifully filmed ,odd totally off the wall but fun and entertaining the dvd has a English soundtrack treat yourself to a total mind trip and I bet you’ll watch it again AA++!!

I love foreign films, and refuse to watch them if they are dubbed. I want the original language and don’t mind subtitles at all. After 12 years of school it should not be a problem to read. This is one of my all-time favorite French films. Yes, iTunes, you have the language listen wrong, but please change the label, not the language. Or give us the choice. People should know what they’re getting.

It's visually stunning and feels like watching a dream. The characters are rich and unique with a dream-like style and tone.

I love this movie but ITunes needs to be honest to which version you are buying. It says "primary language is English" it isnt. It's French.

Love this film the onl;y thing is that it says its in english but Im hearing french. Anyone know how to switch it ? Tried everything / Oh well Cest La Vi

This review is an excerpt from my book “Killer B’s: The 237 Best Movies On Video You’ve (Probably) Never Seen,” which is available as an ebook on iBooks. If you enjoy this review, there are 236 more like it in the book (plus a whole lot more). Check it out! THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN: Presented for your approval: A long-lost script collaboration between Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, directed by Terry Gilliam. No, it’s not true, but it’s a close description of this arrestingly grotesque fantasy. The surreal seaside city is a cold Victorian horror of girders, trusses, rivets and bolts, crisscrossed with canals full of garish green water and populated with funhouse freaks, cyborg Cyclopses, Siamese sisters, clownish clones, trained fleas, hideous midgets, even a disembodied brain in a fish tank. We enter actual nightmare territory with this insanely original imagery—a singularly sinister vision in the tradition of “Brazil” and Jeunet & Caro’s previous film, “Delicatessen.” And as in the latter, even when integrating incredible effects into the film, Jeunet & Caro refuse to let style dominate substance: the entire tender tale revolves around the poignant relationship between gentle giant One (Perlman) and the disenchanted Miette, each protecting—and oddly completing—the other. Add Pinon’s inspired lunacy and Badalamenti’s circus-style score, and it’s an eye-popping fable that can only be called unique.

Simply Perfect

The refreshing thing about movies made by Caro and Jeunet is that they attempt and succeed to transcend language, time and place. Once you've sat in their theater - they own you. I remember when this movie came out, I was stunned. It was too big to take in the first time, and the second only made me have to see it again. And again. I loved it. It offered something that had not only been lacking then, but dares to be lacking now, and that is true originality and storytelling in film. The story is sweet and wholesome, and the characters represent the eternal masks from ancient stages, but somehow when they are brought together in this movie, they represent a level of superb that inspires. Movie makers and would be movie makers MUST watch this movie. Be in the right frame of mind to accept that there is something more that you might try with your own craft. Like other workers of the craft who are more concerned with the art - (the brothers Quay leap to mind) - you will NOT be disappointed. I loe this movie. It's truly one of my faves.

Bad plot, harder to follow with english subtitles. Its not obvious when you rent that it's in another language. SO awful I watced about 10 min then shut it down. WHat a waste of money,

Creepy Good!