The City of Lost Children

The City of Lost Children

  • Director:
  • Writer: Gilles Adrien,Jean-Pierre Jeunet,Marc Caro
  • Countries of origin: France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, United States
  • Language: French, Cantonese
  • Release date: December 15, 1995
  • Sound mix: DTS, Dolby SR
  • Also known as: Місто загублених дітей
  • "The City of Lost Children" is a sci-fi film co-directed by Jean-Pierre Gennet and Marc Carlo, starring Ron Pullman and Daniel Emile Fokker, on May 17, 1995 in France Released.
    The film tells the story of Hercules, with the help of the intelligent and calm little girl Maya and the underwater weirdo who suffered from amnesia, defeating Kaku, who does not dream of premature aging, and rescues his younger brother.

    Details

    • Release date December 15, 1995
    • Filming locations Studios 91 Arpajon, Saint-Germain-les-Arpajon, Essonne, France
    • Production companies Constellation, Lumière Pictures, Le Studio Canal+

    Box office

    Budget

    $18,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $1,738,611

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $34,348

    Gross worldwide

    $1,781,465

    Movie reviews

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    • By Helmer 2022-03-24 09:02:15

      No matter how turbid and treacherous, it can't cover up the subtle affection

      Dirty streets, a hopeless world view, cruel world, inexhaustible turbid air, green water that can smell nightmares, everything that makes it too late to complain about extreme normality and ugliness is a way of wrapping beauty in warmth, just like the ending song In the same way, the twisted and treacherous notes are finally overwhelmed by the harmony of the strings. Our life is not as suffocated as the world view of the film, but it may be too much at any time. At this time, I hope that I can...

    • By Camylle 2022-03-23 09:02:13

      Fantastic fairy tale horror world

      The first "Angel Amelie" I watched. This household name film combines French humor with postmodern hyperbole and grotesque. With a happy song, a sad song was sung.
          In the real world, how many love beauty? How many Ninos are there like Amelia? There are several who can appear in the same period, in the same city, and at the same subway entrance, doing the same things that others don't understand.
          Therefore, behind happiness, there is always a lot of bitterness as a price. At...

    • By Myron 2022-03-23 09:02:13

      from the classical imagination

      The French people's film imagination cannot be compared with a few star faces, a few steel armors, stylized vulgar plots, and vigorous computer stunts in an assembly-line Hollywood clone factory. The imagination they give you is deeply hidden in the absurd and surprising expressions of each yin and yang protagonist, in every dream constructed with cellophane paper, cotton cloth, horses, branches, boats, and cotton clouds, and every dark and damp crawling snail can kill people with mosquitoes....

    • By Rey 2022-03-22 09:02:04

      let's dream together

      In the foggy night, the dazzling green water of Paris is rippling with microwaves. In this hazy city, it seems that sunlight will never penetrate...
      The protagonist of the movie is like countless people drifting on this green water. A big man with a mind like a child, dedicated to looking for the stolen waiter brother, although danger often blocked his way, even though he didn't know the whereabouts of the waiter boy, he kept going on firmly, because there were some. The feeling of a...

    • By Courtney 2022-03-20 09:01:59

      a fantastic dream movie

      Director Jean-Pierre Genet I don't think I need to comment any more here.

      The film is entertaining, imaginative, and best watched when you feel tired physically and mentally and lacking in thinking, because it sweeps away those obstacles.

      It's a surreal movie, you can also call it a children's drama (think it is suitable for children to watch).

      In terms of style, "Black Shop Rhapsody" and "The Good Ruffian" are similar to it, but they also have their own...

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    • By Elaina 2022-04-23 07:02:38

      So cool. C has said it several times, and I also have a psychological expectation, but I am still very surprised at first glance. I wanted to check it out for lunch. As a result, I couldn't put it down when I saw it, so I had to let myself finish it. Every character has a personality, every shot has a comic sense, the story is very flavorful, neither strong nor weak, but has stamina, and the aftertaste is endless. Watching a good movie makes my whole body feel warm. Genet has yet to disappoint...

    • By Kirsten 2022-04-23 07:02:38

      Same montage but not as good as "Black Shop Rhapsody" and "Play...

    • By Emery 2022-04-23 07:02:38

      After watching it with Runzhi,...

    • By Krystal 2022-04-23 07:02:38

      The little lady is so...

    • By Nat 2022-04-23 07:02:38

      As long as you are sincere to the world, there is no...

    Movie plot

    The children in Xiaocheng have disappeared continuously, causing panic. The little girl in the circus discovered that someone kidnapped a child to steal their dreams. With the help of his friends, he wanted to rescue the children.
    The background is full of steel buildings, and there is a cold and terrifying atmosphere everywhere. The big man Ah Yi is a strong man. His father was killed, and his younger brother was taken away by a group...
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    Release date

    Country/Region Release/Release Date (Details)
    France, May 1995...(Cannes Film Festival) (premiere)
    France May 17, 1995
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    Movie quotes

    • Miette: When you're born in the gutter you end up in the port.

    • L'oncle Irvin: [Following through with his suggestion that a solution might be found found in an analysis of Krank's "tears"] Once upon a time there was an inventor so gifted that he could create life. A truly remarkable man.

      Krank: [Sarcastically] A fairy tale! Tears are welling in my eyes.

      L'oncle Irvin: Since he had no wife or children he decided to create them in his laboratory. He started with wife and fas into the most beautiful princess in the world. Alas, a wicked genetic fairy cast a spell on the inventor so much so that the princess was only knee height or less. He then cloned six children in his own image, faithful, hardworking. They were so alike no one could tell them apart. But fate tricked him again, giving them all sleeping sickness. Craving someone to talk to he grew in a fish-tank a poor migraine-ridden brain. And then at last he created his masterpiece more intelligent then the most intelligent man on Earth.

      [Krank freezes]

      L'oncle Irvin: But alas the inventor made a serious mistake. While his creation was intelligent he never ever had a dream. You can't image how his sadness made him quickly he grow old.

      [Krank sheds a single teardrop]

      Clone: [Seeing it] Boss!... There!... There!

      [Krank tries to catch it]

      Clone: Quick! A dropper!

      Clone: A dropper Quick!

      Mlle. Bismuth: [Bismuth and the clones start rushes around for a dropper] A dropper!

      Mlle. Bismuth: A dropper!

      Clone: A dropper!

      Mlle. Bismuth: A dropper! A dropper!

      Clone: A dropper!

      Mlle. Bismuth: [Finding one] Ah, a dropper!

      [Goes to Krank and gently uses it to get the tear]

      L'oncle Irvin: [Disgusted] The poor masterpiece became so crazed he believed a single tear drop could save him. And after many cruel deeds he died.

      L'oncle Irvin: [shouting] Never knowing what it was to dream!

    • Miette: One?

      [One grunts]

      Miette: You asleep?

      [One breathes deeply and mumbles]

      Miette: What did you do before?

      One: One sailor. Harpooned Whales. One night

      [pauses]

      One: One hear whales singing. After

      [gestures throwing of harpoon]

      One: always always the target I miss. One loses job.

      Miette: One?

      [pauses]

      Miette: What's it like to have a little brother?

      One: Keeps you

      [pauses]

      One: running.

      Miette: Well, he can't complain he's got nobody to worry about him.

      One: [Turns over] Denree- little brother. Miette- little sister.

      [Blows air on Miette's back]

      Miette: What are you doing?

      One: [Whispers in Miette's ear] Radiator