Micmacs (2009)
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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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It’s the kind of movie that European filmmakers like Jean-Pierre Jeunet (“Delicatessen,” “Micmacs”) have been trying to make for years — something zany and atmospheric and mostly set in a single location.
Just as fellow Frenchman Jean–Pierre Jeunet has done in movies like Micmacs and Delicatessen, there’s a warped internal logic to what happens here, a fate as funny business premise that predicates everything that comes before and after.
And he takes a visual style straight out of the steam-punk films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Delicatessen," "Micmacs") and tries to go their sources one better, with more gears, more gadgets and more gimmicks.