Micmacs

    Micmacs
    2009

    Synopsis

    While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head. Now homeless and jobless, he is taken in by a troupe of misfits who live in a giant mound of trash. There Bazil begins his quest for revenge against the people who produced the gun that shot him.

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    Cast

    • Dany BoonBazil
    • Dominique PinonFracasse
    • André DussollierNicolas Thibault De Fenouillet
    • Jean-Pierre MariellePlacard
    • Julie FerrierRubber Kid
    • Yolande MoreauTambouille
    • Michel CrémadèsPetit Pierre
    • Nicolas MariéFrançois Marconi
    • Omar SyRemington
    • Marie-Julie BaupCalculette

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Boxoffice Magazine

      Like "Amelie," Micmacs is visually dazzling, the ravishing images coming courtesy of "La Vie en Rose" cinematographer, Tetsuo Nagata.
    • 83

      Entertainment Weekly

      Jeunet maintains a firm control of his dreamscape creation, drawing on influences as varied as "Toy Story," "Children of Paradise," and TV's "Mission: Impossible."
    • 83

      The A.V. Club

      At its best, Micmacs is a robust, enjoyably lunatic game. It's social commentary by way of a good Looney Tune.
    • 80

      Variety

      Turning the volume of his slapstick surreality down from 11 to 10, Gallic auteur Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Amelie") hits the sweet spot with Micmacs.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      Micmacs is an inventive romp punctuated by the kind of quirkiness Jeunet has brought to all his films.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Another beguiling if draining fantasia from Jean-Pierre Jeuet that harkens back to silent movies.
    • 70

      Village Voice

      Micmacs is more fantasia than violent revenge tale. And its pleasing curlicues--like a bouquet of spoons--linger long after the predictable outcome.
    • 65

      Movieline

      Nearly everyone, and everything, in Micmacs is at one point or another guilty of trying too hard.

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