Micmacs - We Own Paris!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Micmacs - We Own Paris! |
| Original title | Micmacs à tire-larigot |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| script | Jean-Pierre Jeunet Guillaume Laurant |
| production | Jean-Pierre Jeunet Frédéric Brillion Gilles Legrand |
| music | Raphaël Beau |
| camera | Tetsuo Nagata |
| cut | Hervé Schneid |
| occupation | |
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Micmacs - We Own Paris! (Original title: Micmacs à tire-larigot ) is a French feature film from 2009 by Jean-Pierre Jeunet . The main character Bazil is portrayed by the French comedian Dany Boon .
action
The life of the video store employee Bazil is tragically determined twice by armed violence. His father dies trying to defuse a land mine , and Bazil is injured as a bystander in a shooting in front of the video store. Since then there has been a bullet in his head. As a result of this misfortune, he loses his home and his job. After a period of homelessness , Bazil finds accommodation with a group of outsiders who live in a cave under a pile of rubbish . Almost every one of these “family members” has an extraordinary talent: Petit Pierre builds elaborate and bizarre machines from scrap and is also superhumanly strong, Calculette can measure the world at a glance, Fracasse let himself be shot into the air like a human cannonball , Remington almost talks Only in idioms and La Môme Caoutchouc can bend their bodies.
While searching for recyclable bulky waste , Bazil accidentally discovers the corporate headquarters of the two arms manufacturers whose products made his life a tragedy. He develops a plan how he and his friends can take revenge on the arms manufacturer. In the style of a heist movie , they play the two against each other until the arms manufacturer Marconi lets the factory of its competitor Thibault de Fenouillet explode. While searching for incriminating evidence, Bazil is kidnapped by both arms manufacturers in Marconi's apartment. Bazil's friends manage to free him and in turn kidnap Thibault de Fenouillet and Marconi. It is suggested to both of them that they were abducted to a crisis area. Allegedly at risk of death, they confess that they behaved immorally and sold weapons to the IRA , ETA and in the Darfur conflict . The confession is recorded on video and uploaded to YouTube . Bazil and La Môme Caoutchouc become a couple.
Allusions
The film contains some self-quotes from Jeunet as well as quotes from other films:
- Bazil's microphone lands in an apartment where a couple is playing cello and singing saw (Julie and Louison from Delicatessen )
- the camera settings of the film recordings below the Paris Métro are similar to those from The fabulous world of Amélie
- when Thibault de Fenouillet sits on Marconi's shoulders, a hand grenade in his mouth, it resembles a scene in Play Me a Song of Death
- At the airport a policeman asks the supposed tour group “Are you talking to me?” miming Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver
Reviews
“The retro-futuristic drama creates a world full of magical things to tell about love. The exuberant imagination gives the impression that Leonardo da Vinci and Monty Python had let off steam in HD, whereby the staging is always balanced, above all by the excellent cast. "
“As in all of his films from“ Delicatessen ”to“ Mathilde - A Great Love ”, Jean-Pierre Jeunet presents bizarre ideas and weird types in abundance this time too. Jeunet's role model for the tricky deception with which Bazil's fun guerrilla pits two competing arms dealers against each other was the series “ Kobra, take over! ". But his film is not just a poetic declaration of love for the legendary TV series: "Micmacs" is probably the craziest and at the same time most playful disarmament initiative in film history. "
Awards
- Nomination in the category Best Costumes for Madeline Fontaine
- Nomination in the category Best Production Design for Aline Bonetto
- Nomination in the Best Sound category for Jean Umansky, Gérard Hardy and Vincent Arnardi
- The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “particularly valuable”.
Web links
- Micmacs - We Own Paris! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Micmacs - We Own Paris! at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Micmacs - We Own Paris! at Metacritic (English)
- Micmacs - We Own Paris! in the online film database
- Micmacs - We Own Paris! in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release Certificate for Micmacs - We Own Paris! Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 069 K).
- ↑ Age Rating for Micmacs - We Own Paris! Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Micmacs - We Own Paris! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Micmacs - We Own Paris! on cinema.de
- ↑ Micmacs - We Own Paris! on fbw-filmbassy.com