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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Why this pick
Its ornate sets, baroque inventions, and melancholy fairy-tale logic echo the lavishly artificial world and bittersweet wonder of The City of Lost Children.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1995 1h 48m FRA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Krank (Daniel Emilfork), a highly intelligent but malicious being created by a vanished scientist, is unable to dream, which causes him to age prematurely. At his lair on an abandoned oil-rig (which he shares with the scientist's other creations: six childish clones, a dwarf named Martha, and a brain in a vat named Irvin), he uses a dream-extracting machine to steal dreams from children. The children are kidnapped for him from a nearby port city by a cyborg cult called the Cyclops, who in exchange he supplies with mechanical eyes and ears. Among the kidnapped is Denree (Joseph Lucien), the adopted little brother of carnival strongman One (Ron Perlman).
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Daniel Emilfork
Krank
Rufus
Peeler
Ticky Holgado
Ex-acrobat
Briac Barthélémy
Bottle
Dominique Bettenfeld
Bogdan
Michel Motu
Krank, age 45
Ron Perlman
One
Dominique Pinon
Scaphandrier / Les Clones