Directors: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Year: 1995
Cast: Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Geneviève Brunet, Odile Mallet, Mireille Mossé, Serge Merlin
Film Review: Cité des enfants perdus, La - The City of Lost Children (1995)

This film is a visual masterpiece with the costumes designed by Jean Paul Gaultier. The plot is very surreal and at times hard to follow but it suits this dark fairytale.

Crackpot scientist Krank is incapable of dreaming so abducts young children and tries to steal their dreams to stop and reverse his accelerated aging process. Krank kidnaps Denree, the younger brother of former circus strongman One who teams up with a young street urchin to get him back from the deranged Krank and his armies of clones and cyborg killers.

An almost indescribably beautiful film and easily the finest fantasy to come out of France in the 1990s. Crammed to the brim with grotesque characters, stunning production designs and off-the-wall plot twists, La cité des enfants perdus is a more than worthy successor to the directors' manic Delicatessen and, in its haunting, surrealist imagery, it rivals anything done by Terry Gilliam and David Lynch. A work of genius.

Viewing highly recommended!