2009 · comedy · crime
Micmacs (2009)
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet1h 44m2009
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.
Our read: Micmacs (2009) (2009) reads as a warm, kinetic, surreal comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- surreal
- funny
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