"City of Lost Children" screening (1:12 duration) to be immediately followed by a Q & A with filmmaker, Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Amelie, "Alien Resurrection," "Delicatessen", "A Very Long Engagement") moderated by Kris Samuelson, Director of the Film and Media Studies Program.
"City of Lost Children" is an imaginative fantasy story of a mad scientist Krank (Daniel Emilfork) who kidnaps children so he can steal their dreams since he himself lacks the ability to dream. However, he finds trouble when his henchmen nab a little boy whose adopted brother is a circus strongman.
This event is Co-sponsored by the Film and Media Studies Program in the Department of Art & Art History, the Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of French and Italian, the Introduction to the Humanities Program, and "On Set with French Cinema," sponsored by UNIFRANCE and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs.