The music is lovely and moving and the English lyrics keep up. While adequate I do wish I could have listened to the songs as they were written and the initially cast French actors. Unable to find the original French language version with English subtitles I was consigned to viewing the English dubbed version. 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. 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. While CGI, the animation has a unique marionette picturebook characteristic. The animation is dark and Gothic, decidedly Burtonesque with a Henry Selick or Laika quality yet simultaneously original. Some would say the adventitious plot is careless and designless but I think that is where the artistry lies. The poetic narrative twists and turns and Jack's troubles are Shakespearean, full of misguided choices and fallacious offenses. The romance is doomed as his adopted mother Madeline informs him a single kiss could stop his ticking 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.
Malzieu's Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart is a hopeless love story of a morose young fellow cursed with a faulty cuckoo heart. Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart is a fanciful tale from creator Mathias Malzieu. 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. His tile panel ‘Oud-West, Thuis Best’ is part of the Rijksmuseum collection and Coenen’s computer generated video animations have been acquired by renowned media-art collections, including the Centre Pompidou’s in Paris.This whimsical animated french film about love is a delightful treat. He also made an important contribution to the Beurspassage in Amsterdam, reaching the top 3 of the Annual Review of NRC Handelsblad (our New York Times) Architecture. The immense colorful ceiling he made for this project appeared on the covers of both the Architecture in the Netherlands Yearbook and the Dutch Design Yearbook. He prefers explosive phenomena such as hooliganism, heavy metal and the martial arts culture.Ĭoenen gained international fame with his contribution to De Markthal in Rotterdam. Coenen is not only fascinated by the rapid emergence of cultures from beyond national borders subcultures, youth culture and pop culture are also prominent in his work. His being widely appreciated partly comes from creating his work together with local residents and other stakeholders. He mixes intricate digital graphic design with analog crafts such as glass mosaic. Arno Coenen has made a name for himself with creating personal art for public spaces.
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