The boy's mother slips out in the night and leaves him to Madeleine to raise and for 10 long years, he lives atop the mountain, sheltered from society while his mother tinkers about with her companions, two wacky sisters, Luna and Anna, and Arthur, a man whose spine has been replaced by Madeleine with a zylophone. A tinkerer at heart, she inserts a small cuckoo clock inside of him and it does the trick, but he must always abide by three important rules: 1) Don't touch the hands of the clock 2) Don't lose your temper and 3) Don't ever fall in love. Madeleine is able to deliver the baby, but due to the extreme cold, he is born with a frozen solid heart of ice and she must act quickly if she is going to save the infant's life. Unfortunately, Jack's mother is near to giving birth to him and as the countryside ices over, she makes her way to the top of a mountain where a midwife/witch named Madeleine (Barbara Scaff) resides. The film begins on the coldest day the world has even known. The characters have somewhat disproportionately large heads and the world they live in is rather unusual, sporting a steampunk vibe, even though it is 19th Century Edinburgh, Scotland. Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is an animated film reminiscent of something Tim Burton might have a hand in that is, the animation is quite dark and fantastical as you can see for yourself in the trailer. ![]() ![]() Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a very different film than his typical action movie, but it is an interesting film nonetheless. I still prefer his action films to anything else he does, but when his name is attached to a film (even just as a producer), I typically pay attention. First off, my love affair with Luc Besson and his films began when I first saw La Femme Nikita in the early 90's and has continued ever since.
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