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Film · 1995

The City of Lost Children

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro, Marianne Faithfull

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The City of Lost Children
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Lets the urban isolation thread settle into a deeper film form.

The City of Lost Children is a 1995 fantasy film directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, written by Jeunet and Gilles Adrien, and starring Ron Perlman. An international co-production of companies from France, Germany, and Spain, the film is stylistically related to the previous and subsequent Jeunet films, Del...

This work has been selected for the Aravien index based on editorial review.

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Open anchor 2001: A Space Odyssey Restates urban isolation in a sharper film register.

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The City of Lost Children is a 1995 fantasy film directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, written by Jeunet and Gilles Adrien, and starring Ron Perlman. An international co-production of companies from France, Germany, and Spain, the film is stylistically related to the previous and subsequent Jeunet films, Del...

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