Posts Tagged ‘ fantasy ’

Edward Scissorhands is a work of visual excellence and stylistic beauty that can scarcely be described in writing. Director Tim Burton soars past the brilliance of his other films to bring us this touching story of a man created by an inventor and raised in isolation from the surrounding town. The artificial man, Edward, played to the point of near-perfection by Johnny Depp, is someone different in a world where conformity is everything.

Written and directed by Belgian film-maker Pieter Van Hees, Black XXX-Mas tells a surreal horror story of a hodgepodge of fairy-tales set in a bizarre world that seems at once in the future and in the present.  The overall narrative and plot most closely follows that of Little Red Riding Hood.  Be warned it’s very violent, graphic, and I believe there may be some nudity, so it’s definitely not to be considered safe for work.

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The City of Lost Children was the second movie of Jeunet’s which I watched and was one of the first movies I sought out specifically because of the director.  It has since become one of my all-time favorites movies.  It can best be described as an adult fairy tale with vivid imagery of mechanisms reminiscent of Brazil, the ever-present Dominique Pinon, and American actor Ron Perlman.

This movie presents us with a surreal world that is specifically not placed within any particular place or any particular time.  The main topic of the movie is that a scientist named Krank (Daniel Emilfork) who lives on a floating laboratory with his family is not able to dream and is experimenting with a variety of methods, most of which are very questionable in their safety and very likely to harm their test subjects.

The scientist kidnaps children from a nearby unnamed city to study them and what makes them able to dream.  One of the last children to be kidnapped in this fashion is Miette (played by Judith Vittet) who has recently befriended a gentle giant named One (Ron Perlman).  The two quickly become friends and when Miette is kidnapped we follow the adventure of One through the fantastic sets and unimaginable worlds to save her from the scientist.