
Micmacs Recently I have been thinking a lot about my experiences at TIFF (aka The Toronto International Film Festival) over the last 9 years. I may even compile a reflective piece on the various years I attended for a future blog post. One of the catalysts for my nostalgic trip down memory lane is the release of my favourite film from the 2009 TIFF, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs . Bazil's (Dany Boon) life is turned upside down after a drive-by-shooting [...]
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It's difficult to determine whether Jean-Pierre Jeunet's growing likeness in both substance and style to the heights of Terry Gilliam is intentional or just him becoming more eccentric in his artistic vision. Regardless, anytime the director of Amelie, The City of Lost Children, and A Very Long Engagement has a new flick out, it's worth keeping an eye on it.
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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 [...]