Jack et la mécanique du coeur (2014) - Trailer French

Directed by : Mathias Malzieu, Stéphane Berla
Produced by : EuropaCorp
Genre: Animated film - Runtime: 1 h 29 min
French release: 05/02/2014
Production year: 2011

Edinburgh, 1874. Jack is born on the coldest day the world has ever seen and his heart remains frozen. Doctor Madeleine saves him by replacing his defective heart with a mechanical clock. He will survive with this magical contraption so long as he respects three rules: he must never touch the hands; he must control his anger; he must never, ever fall in love. His encounter with Miss Acacia, a little street singer, makes the clock's hands turn more quickly. Jack is prepared to do anything to find her again and so, like a Don Quichotte, he sets out on a quest for love that will take him from the Scottish lochs to Paris, and from there to Andalusia.

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P.S. It's wonderful that Malzieu got to voice his own creation, and provide the singing voice, in the original French. It just makes it that much better that he could.

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What first turned me onto this wonderful movie, and the book in 2015, right here. Very reminiscent of Corpse Bride in its art style, but all French and Malazieu in its execution. I am a little down that they didn't do Luna's glass eye or too much with Cunnilingus the Hamster having read the book now, but I can understand the need to sanitize to make it accessible to more audiences.