The mom's magical midwife, Madeleine, resuscitates the newborn's frozen heart by installing a cuckoo clock ticker. But as the story unfolds, the viewer awakens to the baffling question of who is the audience? A pregnant mother-to-be trudges through snow, frostbitten in her nighty and cape, to deliver and abandon Jack, her semi-stillborn son. I love combining different tones, which is why I’ve intertwined the fairytale with the reality of Edinburgh, and I tried to pull very human, very real emotions from the images”.At its onset, the sights and sounds of the movie seize you with grand expectations: that this movie will transport you to computer-generated nirvana. I might also mention Edward Gorey and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, a very free artist who I really like and hope to pay tribute to with this film. But I feel closer to Jim Jarmusch and his slightly weary characters, or to the baroque yet tender side of Fellini, or FREAKS by Tod Browning, who also broached the subject of difference, in a slightly unsettling yet poetic and sweet way. People often mention Tim Burton, and I love the relationship between beauty and monstrosity in his work. I wanted to do something like THE LITTLE PRINCE or PINOCCHIO - without pretending to hold a candle to them - only slightly more surreal, with imagery that’s a little more out there. “I wanted to talk about passionate love and a tolerance for difference, which are two very powerful themes, with the idea of an adventure lurking behind them. He regularly combines live action scenes with animated elements and digital manipulation. He has directed several short films (such as SCOUB 2), music videos and commercials. He wrote novels including LA MÉCANIQUE DU COEUR, which was also published in the UK, Germany and Italy.īorn 1975, Lyon (France). He is the founding member of the band Dionysos which he formed with schoolfriends in 1993.
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