Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart Blu-Ray Review
There are few movies that are as wild, original, and filled with soul as Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart, and the only problem with that is that it’s going to make you think someone else directed it. (He didn’t.)
Adapted by Mathias Malzieu from his own bestselling novel and the gold-selling album by his band Dionysos, Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a magical story that feels like a new breed of myth, and it comes to you through brilliant animation.
Born on the coldest day in the history of the Earth, Jack’s heart is frozen solid. To save his life, midwife Madeleine grafts a tiny cuckoo clock into his chest to take its place. Everything will be fine, she tells him, so long as he follows three rules in order to keep things running smooth – He can never touch the clock’s workings,...
There are few movies that are as wild, original, and filled with soul as Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart, and the only problem with that is that it’s going to make you think someone else directed it. (He didn’t.)
Adapted by Mathias Malzieu from his own bestselling novel and the gold-selling album by his band Dionysos, Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a magical story that feels like a new breed of myth, and it comes to you through brilliant animation.
Born on the coldest day in the history of the Earth, Jack’s heart is frozen solid. To save his life, midwife Madeleine grafts a tiny cuckoo clock into his chest to take its place. Everything will be fine, she tells him, so long as he follows three rules in order to keep things running smooth – He can never touch the clock’s workings,...
- 10/28/2014
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
There are no subtitles on this clip, so it's on you to decipher what, exactly, happens on this episode of the French TV show H-Man. We can tell you that Fiona Apple has green eyes, and seems to be speaking German, and there is some tricky stuff with a giant sunflower. Also, that superhero kind of looks like Chris O'Dowd? Okay, enjoy your weird French cartoons now.
- 3/31/2014
- by Amanda Dobbins
- Vulture
Never one to back down from doing what's right, Fiona Apple will take her heroic ways to the screen when she appears in H-Man, an upcoming French TV series about superheroes, Consequence of Sound reports. The show comes courtesy of director Joseph Cahill, who was behind the striking video for "Every Single Night," off Apple's last studio album, The Idler Wheel…
You can take a peak at the hyper-stylized show in the teaser above, which features a quick shot of Apple as BioFrau, the leader of the activist group Feux...
You can take a peak at the hyper-stylized show in the teaser above, which features a quick shot of Apple as BioFrau, the leader of the activist group Feux...
- 2/20/2014
- Rollingstone.com
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