Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The City of Lost Children



(1995) ***1/2

Beautifully acted and wildly inventive, but also at times confusing and hard to follow, CoLC is a surreal fantasy adventure following the quest of strongman One and sidekick Miette to rescue One's little brother from an evil dream-stealer.

3 comments:

Octopunk said...

"Beautifully acted and wildly inventive, but also at times confusing and hard to follow..."

That's pretty much this movie in a nutshell, except I'd probably replace "acted" with "shot."

Catfreeek said...

I'm so glad you watched it and liked it.

DKC said...

Hmmm - think I'll leave this one alone. I get to so few, I don't really have time for confusing and hard to follow!

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