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From the makers of Delicatessen 1991 Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, The City of Lost Children is a murky fantasy adventure centred around a group of scientifically created misfits whose amnesiac creator is left scouring the seabed for relics of his forgotten past. In a mysterious water tower above the sea, an unlikely ensemble of manufactured beings (including a team of clones and a disembodied brain known as ‘Irvin’), enlist a group of mysterious henchmen known as the Cyclops to kidnap local street urchins. Using a strange dream-extraction device called the Sarcophagus, Irvin and the clones steal nightmares from the children to help another scientifically created curiosity (a pre-maturely aging man named ‘Krank’) develop the ability to dream. When the younger brother of street performing strong man ‘One’ (Ron Perlman) is taken by the Cyclops, One teams up with a young orphan named Miette to rescue the missing children. Including signature costume design by Jean-Paul Gaultier and a mesmerising score by David Lynch collaborator Angelo Badalamenti, The City of Lost Children is a darkly comedic exploration of that which makes us uniquely human.

M | Low level violence