Micmacs
Micmacs is the latest round of devilishly witty insanity from French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet who gave us Amélie, probably Europe most profitable film export ever. Dany Boon plays Bazil, a video store clerk who survives accidentally being shot in the head. Surgeons elect not to remove the bullet since the procedure would likely put him in a vegetative state while leaving it in will only “likely” kill him or at best make airport security a nightmare. With his old job gone he survives as a bad street performer until his rescue by a gang of junkyard rejects. As they include a human cannon ball with a Guinness world record and a comely contortionist this crew resembles a circus side show but together they decided to pool their quirky talents to exact revenge from the powerful but callous munitions barons responsible not only for manufacturing the bullet lodged in Bazil’s cranium hut also the land mine that killed his army dad while serving overseas in 1979. Micmacs has absolutely nothing to do with First Nations people on Canada’s east coast but is a big part of the current Fourth Annual French Film Festival on Canada’s west coast.