Mic Macs

[JimDocker]

Recently, in a thread. I declared Jean Pierre Jeunet as the best director of this century and was eagerly looking forward to his next film.

I saw Mic Macs last night as part of the French Film Festival and was pretty disappointed. His visual style was there and amazing as always, but the dialogue and character development were poor.

Delicatessen, City of The Lost Children, Amelie and A Very Long Engagement all drew me in to the lives of the characters. There was none of that with this film and I thought it was all a bit gimmicky and shallow.

It got a round of applause when it finished and 4 people I went with enjoyed it, but not so much me.

[summerthebat]

Was really looking forward to this, where did you see it?

I agree with your previous sentiments on Jeunet

[JimDocker]

Luna on Essex.

The festival is on for2 weeks and I think they are rotating the films. I would be interested what another Jeunet fan thinks.

[summerthebat]

Just checked the schedule and it played three times and no more.

The irony is, I sat in bed on Saturday night googling Australian release for this movie and came up with no results, and there you have it, final screening of the festival was on Sunday 4pm.

A Very Long Engagement is so close to the perfect film for me.

[JimDocker]

I went to the Sunday 4 pm screening. My wife booked tickets, so I did not worry about it too much. It was in the largest of the Luna cinemas and every seat was taken. Even those about ten feet away right at the bottom !

A Very Long Engagement is a great film. Much better than this one.

[summerthebat]

Agree with your sentiments.

I did enjoy it, but easily his worst film.... far too jovial for my liking.

[XFactor1979]

there wasnt a lot about this movie!

the full french title actually translates to 'a fine mess'

there wasnt a lot of focus about this movie, more like an exercise to showcase his quirky world