![TIFF movie review: Micmacs [Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2009]](http://cache.elbo.ws/posts/1997341_lg.jpg)
Toronto - The French are not linked to eccentricity without solid evidence. When the opening scene rolled for Micmacs, which is when Bazil's mom found out her husband was vaporized by a landmine, I could have bursted out laughing because the YELP she gave had no audio sense of shock or grief except that it was implied by context. It was this little, giddy yelp that you exhale after seeing a baby monkey being accidently thrown into a 12 diameter well from a 60 ft tall branch by its sibling, sort of saying: wow, it's just one of the ways [...]