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Dir: Jean-Pierre Jeunet / France / 2009 / 105 mins / Cert: 15A

Starring: Dany Boon, Andre Dussolier, Nicolas Marie, Yolande Moreau, Jean-Pierre Marielle and Julie Ferrier
         
Language: French  
 
From the director of the much-loved Amélie starring Audrey Tatou, MicMacs is Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s latest piece of movie magic.

Employing Jeunet’s familiar theatrical techniques and hyperactive imagination to great effect, Micmacs is an unusual, quirky & romantic tale.

Bazil is a man who was orphaned as a youngster when his soldier father was killed by a roadside bomb. Now working in a video store and trying to find his place in the world, Bazil is hit by a stray bullet in a freak drive-by shooting incident. Emerging from hospital, he finds himself jobless and penniless, but good fortune appears in the form of an ex-con, Tire-Larigot.

When an opportunity arises to get even with the arms manufacturers, who killed his father and left him with a bullet in the head, Bazil begins a plot of sweet revenge.

This is a film that revels in contemporary contrasts. While the rich arms dealers scheme away and make weapons, Bazil and his rag-tag band of friends create objects to delight and charm. Along the way, Bazil finds romance amid the craziness of the modern world. The kinetic level of invention and narrative so familiar to Jeunet lovers is on full display in Micmacs.

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