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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Why this pick
Its meticulously composed imagery, inventive visual storytelling, and affectionate view of an unconventional hero extend the whimsical, handcrafted side of Micmacs.
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MOVIE2009 1h 40m FRA
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Why this pick
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Mood Indigo
Why this pick
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Brazil
Why this pick
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The Fall
Why this pick
Like Micmacs, it turns hardship into a visually extravagant tale, pairing storybook imagination, eccentric characters, and meticulously designed images with real feeling.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A young boy named Bazil loses his military father, who is blown up while attempting to defuse a land mine in the Western Sahara. Thirty years later, Bazil (Dany Boon) is working in a video rental shop in Paris when a stray bullet from a shoot-out in the street enters his forehead. Doctors save him but decide against removing the bullet, though it may kill him at any moment, for fear of damaging his brain further. Bazil returns to his workplace to find that he has been replaced. As he leaves, his replacement gives him a shell casing that she found from the bullet that had struck him.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Dany Boon
Bazil
Yolande Moreau
Tambouille
Michel Crémadès
Petit Pierre
Omar Sy
Remington
Marie-Julie Baup
Calculette
Alix Poisson
L'hôtesse du Train Bleu
Dominique Pinon
Fracasse
André Dussollier
Nicolas Thibault De Fenouillet