The City of Lost Children

Posted 20 October 2010 | Movies

The City of Lost Children (French: La Cité des enfants perdus) is a dystopian French-British-German-Spanish fantasy/drama film by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet released in 1995. The film is stylistically related to the previous and subsequent Jeunet films, Delicatessen and Amélie. It was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

Set in a surrealistic and bizarre society, the movie revolves around a plot by the mad scientist Krank (Daniel Emilfork), who kidnaps children to steal their dreams in order to stop and reverse his accelerated aging process. Among the kidnapped is the little brother of carnival strongman One (Ron Perlman), who sets out to rescue him with the help of a young, orphaned, thieves’ guild member named Miette (Judith Vittet). Miette, who steals for the Siamese Pieuvre, aids in the discovery of the hideout where Krank lives with his cloned dwarf wife, Mademoiselle Bismuth, his six cloned sons and a brain.

The City of Lost Children

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