You deal here with a powerful, awesome, brutal French blockbuster, far from the stuff that a guy like Jean Pierre Jeunet could have made. Because the kind of topic and production desigh of the whole movie, may remind the kind of material which Jeunet usually gives us. Here, I repeat, you have plenty of action, drama, tragedy and a little romance. But that remains really bleak, dark and some kind of depressing piece of work. A bloody piece of work, for all audiences but certainly not for the whole family. The best of the movie, for my opinion, are the supporting characters. You have not plenty, but far enough to glue you to this unusual movie, if you watch it closely. No happy ending in this gruesome French movie, the kind Hollywood industry will NEVER make. NEVER.
Review of The Emperor of Paris
