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Jeunet and Caro

posted 17 years ago by bingham_bryant
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Does anyone else think that this film definitely borrows liberally from the work of Jean Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro? In addition to having the same unsettlingly dark whimsy that runs through films like Amelie and A Very Long Engagement, it also borrows the team's strictly red/green colour pallet. Don't get me wrong, I loved the film, but this seems a little too close to plagiarism for comfort. It seems strange that a film which is on one hand so wildly inventive and unique could paradoxically copy so blatantly. I'm not condemning it, I just thinks it's odd.

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[–] Beau_Buffet 8 years ago

I had this thought from the very beginning of the movie. The more the film went on, the less I thought about it. Like if the director was finding his own style.