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Title: Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2013)
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| Credited cast: | |||
| Mathias Malzieu | ... | Jack (voice) | |
| Olivia Ruiz | ... | Miss Acacia (voice) | |
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Grand Corps Malade | ... | Joe (voice) |
| Jean Rochefort | ... | Méliès (voice) | |
| Rossy de Palma | ... | Luna (voice) | |
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Babet | ... | Anna (voice) |
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Marie Vincent | ... | Madeleine #1 (voice) |
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Emily Loizeau | ... | Madeleine #2 (voice) |
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Arthur H. | ... | Arthur (voice) |
| Dani | ... | Brigitte Helm (voice) | |
| Alain Bashung | ... | Jack l'éventreur (voice) | |
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Cali | ... | L'homme qui pleure / L'homme trmpette (voice) |
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Chloé Renaud | ... | La jeune mère (voice) |
| Moon Dailly | ... | La petite fille blonde (voice) | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Samantha Barks | ... | Miss Acacia (voice) | |
Edinburgh, late 19th century. Little Jack is born on a day so cold that his heart remains frozen. Madeleine the midwife replaces his heart with a cuckoo-clock. It will work, as long as Jack follows the rules, mainly not falling in love. But his encounter with a fiery-eyed girl singing on a street corner and his decision to chase after her will test the resistance of his makeshift heart to the breaking point - Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a magnificent love story set in an exciting period full of fabulous inventions, eccentric characters and fantastic adventures. Adapted by Mathias Malzieu from his best-selling novel and the gold-selling album by his band Dionysos, this superbly animated movie is about passion and acceptance of others. Written by Anonymous
This whimsical animated french film about love is a delightful treat.
Jack is a boy who with a heart condition and mustn't feel any emotion in excess, you see he has a cuckoo clock for a heart. Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart is a fanciful tale from creator Mathias Malzieu.
Malzieu's Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart is a hopeless love story of a morose young fellow cursed with a faulty cuckoo heart. Not only that, this melancholic boy turned tormented teen falls in love for a girl with rose tendrils as hair who is visually impaired from crying tears of ice. The romance is doomed as his adopted mother Madeline informs him a single kiss could stop his ticking heart.
The poetic narrative twists and turns and Jack's troubles are Shakespearean, full of misguided choices and fallacious offenses. Some would say the adventitious plot is careless and designless but I think that is where the artistry lies.
The animation is dark and Gothic, decidedly Burtonesque with a Henry Selick or Laika quality yet simultaneously original. While CGI, the animation has a unique marionette picturebook characteristic. The characters are fresh and inexplicably bewitchingly fantastic – from a a bespectacled feline with metallic whiskers, a man with a xylophonic spine, to an angelic woman (women?) with wings and two heads. We don't actually know why this 19th century setting is so magical but it is imaginative enough to not care, especially when Jack lands at the carnival.
Unable to find the original French language version with English subtitles I was consigned to viewing the English dubbed version. While adequate I do wish I could have listened to the songs as they were written and the initially cast French actors. The music is lovely and moving and the English lyrics keep up.
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