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Release Date: May 28, 2010 (NY, LA)
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Screenwriter: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant
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Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Nicolas Marie, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Micmacs (2010) Story:
Micmacs is a 2009 film by French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie, The City of Lost Children, A Very Long Engagement) that premiered on 15 September 2009 at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival as a gala screening at Roy Thompson Hall. Its original French title is Micmacs à tire-larigot, (‘Non-stop madness’). The film is billed as a “satire on the world arms trade”.
First, it was a mine that exploded in the middle of the Moroccan desert. Years later, it was a stray bullet that lodged in his brain… Bazil (Dany Boon) doesn’t have much luck with weapons. The first made him an orphan, the second holds him on the brink of sudden and instant death.
Released from the hospital, Bazil is homeless. Luckily, our inspired and gentle-natured dreamer is adopted by a motley crew of secondhand dealers living in a veritable Ali Baba’s cave, whose talents and aspirations are as surprising as they are diverse: Remington, Calculator, Buster, Slammer, Elastic Girl, Tiny Pete and Mama Chow.
One day, walking by two huge buildings, Bazil recognizes the logos of the weapons manufacturers that caused his hardship. With the help of his faithful gang of wacky friends he sets out to get revenge. A gang of underdogs battling heartless industrial giants, they relive the battle of David and Goliath, with all the imagination and fantasy of Buster Keaton…
The film stars Dany Boon, Andre Dussollier, Nicolas Marie, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Yolande Moreau, Julie Ferrier, Omar Sy, Dominique Pinon, Marie-Julie Baup and Patrick Paroux.
Bazil (Danny Boon), a man whose father was killed by a roadside bomb, is hit by a stray bullet in a freak drive-by shooting incident. When he gets out of the hospital without a job or any money, he falls in with an ex-con who lives in a scrap dump and makes plans to get revenge on those responsible.
Micmacs (2010) SYNOPSIS
An underground lair serves as the point of inspiration for this deeply whimsical fantasy comedy (with echoes of Jodorowsky's Rainbow Thief) from French cause célèbre Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie, The City of Lost Children). The locale is post-9/11 Europe. As arms dealers go head to head with one another in a series of violent skirmishes -- suggesting that an apocalyptic cataclysm may be lingering on the horizon -- the unfortunate Bazil (Dany Boon) still reels from the long-ago death of his father from a roadside bomb, an event that left him orphaned as a boy. Now employed in a low-paying job as a video-store clerk, and still trying to determine how he fits into the scheme of things, he gets hit by a stray bullet from a drive-by shooting and promptly lands in the hospital. Upon release, he finds himself broke and unemployed. Hope soon crops up, however, in the form of Placard (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an ex-convict living in a scrap dump with a motley group of social outcasts -- all of whom welcome Bazil with warmth, compassion, and hospitality. Sure of his place for the first time in his life, Bazil joins forces with them to turn the dump into a lovely underground home, filled to the rafters with extraordinary inventions and sculptures. Soon after, the possibility of revenge against the munitions manufacturers responsible for Bazil's dad's death presents itself.
Micmacs (2010) REVIEW
[With Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs screening as part of SXSW 2010 we now re-post our review of the film from it's debut in Toronto.]
Disappointing not because it's horrible - which it very definitely is not - but because it's lazy, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs A Tire-Larigot feels less like the return to classic form that he promised than it does the product of a man ticking check boxes on a list of what makes a Jeunet film. Too bad everyone somehow forgot that a compelling story is required if anyone is going to care and that a compelling story requires compelling characters.
Dany Boon is Bazil - a man essentially orphaned in childhood when his father is killed and his mother suffers a breakdown, a man destined to a life of menial jobs thanks to a lack of education. Or, at least, he would have been destined to a life of menial jobs if he hadn't lost the one he had after being struck in the head by a stray bullet, a bullet still lodged in his brain.
Unemployed and homeless - his apartment was given away along with his job during his lengthy hospital stay - Bazil ends up on the streets, scraping together a meager existence until he finds himself adopted by a strange collection misfits who live together in a sort of subterranean warren in the depths of a junk yard, a yard from which they scavenge and restore equipment both practical and whimsical. In his adopted family there is the ex-con, the boisterous mother hen, the walking calculator, the contortionist, the artist-inventor, the human calculator and the guy who seems to have no distinguishing characteristics. And life is good with this adopted family, if somewhat aimless, until Bazil discovers by chance the manufacturers of the weapons that killed his father and put a bullet in his brain - the two firms standing across the road from one another, their owners living a life of luxury. And suddenly Bazil has purpose. He will bring these two down.
As you go through Jeunet's work - particularly his early work - there are certain key elements that stand out. The use of color filters. The love of complex cause-and-effect gags. The underground settings. Circus performers. Hand made props and gadgets. A gently absurd approach to both humor and violence, often in the same shot. And all of these elements are very much at play in Micmacs, the film every ounce a gorgeously realized picture that could only have come from Jeunet.
But what Micmacs lacks is the human connection that makes Jeunet's best work sing. There is no Amelie here. Even in more extreme work like Delicatessen there is a compelling human heart, but here it seems as though everybody is all quirk and no character. Even accepting the odd rules of Jeunet's world, none of these people seem real enough to invest anything in emotionally. And without the emotional core the film simply becomes a string of quirky set pieces - very fun ones, to be sure - linked by bits of filler, none of which ever comes together into a particularly strong whole.
Though still enormous proficient technically and still possessed of one of the most vibrant and fertile imaginations in the world, I expect better than this of Jean-Pierre Jeunet. I demand more. He is capable of better.
Whatever "Micmacs" are supposed to be, Jean-Pierre Jeunet certainly has made the definitive film about them.
The French director whose films include "Amelie" and Delicatessen" combines the spirit and visual flair of those fantasies for a frivolous, featherweight yet fun concoction about lovable misfits messing with big, bad weapons manufacturers.
The title "Micmacs" somehow fits the ragamuffin characters, their improvised schemes and the found-object nature of their lives.
Like a grown-up gang of Little Rascals, with shades of Charles Chaplin's Little Tramp and Buster Keaton's wild antics, Jeunet's ensemble romps through clever stunts and gimmickry to carry out their low-rent "Mission: Impossible" stratagems.
Comedian and filmmaker Dany Boon stars as Bazil, a gentle soul with a heartwrenching history. As a boy, his father died in a mine explosion in the desert. As a grown bystander to a shootout, Bazil takes a bullet to the head, the slug lodging in his brain, leaving him able to function normally but facing the prospect of sudden death at any moment.
Logos on the mine shrapnel and a bullet shell lead Bazil to the two weapons manufacturers he deems responsible for his misfortunes. So Bazil wages his own private war on the companies and their despicable bosses, played with blustery bravado by Andre Dussollier and Nicolas Marie.
Bazil finds allies in a band of scroungers and gatherers living in an elaborate subterranean dwelling made of scrap in a Paris junkyard.
Like Snow White's dwarf friends (or any good comic-book tale of mutant superheroes, which this bunch definitely are not), each of Bazil's chums bring a special talent to the table.
Slammer (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is the patriarch, who survived a guillotine execution, while Mama Chow (Yolande Moreau) is the mother hen, who lost her two little girls at a mirrored funhouse and has adopted her new family of oddballs in their stead.
Buster (Dominique Pinon) is a human cannonball, while Remington (Omar Sy) is a maniacal keeper of lists and inventories. Calculator (Marie-Julie Baup) can measure and quantify anything, while Tiny Pete (Michel Cremades) crafts fabulous moving sculptures and contraptions from the junk the others collect.
And Elastic Girl (Julie Ferrier) is a "sensitive soul in a flexible body," able to twist herself like putty, (with contortionist Julia Gunthel doubling for her in the movie's bendy portions).
It's a sweet little story filled with charming characters, though even French audiences had little interest when "Micmacs" played on Jeunet's home turf, so the film's appeal to American audiences is questionable.
Still, "Micmacs" has a big heart and a playful visual style. It's a nice palate cleanser among all the computer-generated action of Hollywood's summer blockbusters.
"Micmacs," a Sony Pictures Classics release, is rated R for some sexuality and brief violence. Running time: 104 minutes. Three stars out of four.
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