Jack And The Cuckoo Clock Heart
Edinburgh, late 19th century. Little Jack is born on a day so cold that his heart remains frozen. In her house on top of a big hill, Madeleine the midwife replaces the defective organ with a cuckoo-clock. It will work, she warns him, as long as Jack doesn’t touch the hands of the clock, doesn’t lose his temper and, above all, doesn’t fall in love. But Jack’s encounter with a fiery-eyed little girl singing on a street corner and his decision to chase after her across Europe to Andalusia test the resistance of his makeshift heart to breaking point..
15 May 1955, Marseille, France
2 October 1990, Isle of Man, UK
1966, Paris, France
31 July 1977, Le Blanc-Mesnil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
1 December 1947, Paris, France
16 September 1964, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
28 December 1988, Killarney, Ireland
1 January 1980, Carcassonne, Aude, France
March1966, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
September 23, 2014
Rich with imagination and a pure pleasure to watch.
September 21, 2014
The film is at once enabled and hindered by its utter strangeness, an intrinsic quality surely exacerbated in its English-language release.
October 06, 2014
This is a special gem of a movie.
September 25, 2014
Even while wearing its obvious, name-dropped influences on its sleeve, Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart feels original in the sincerity of its magic.
March 17, 2014
Malzieu has created a fully-realized, wildly imaginative storybook world and populated it with eccentric characters.
September 24, 2014
Animation fans will find much to enjoy...Those who nitpick at logic will find so many threads to pull apart that they'll be as cold as Jack by the end
September 26, 2014
Imaginative steampunk musical is too dark for little kids.
September 22, 2014
Eccentric with some striking design touches, but humorless and heartless
September 23, 2014
"Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart" stubbornly remains less than the sum of its parts. But its rich visual imagery suggests the talented artists involved could create something exciting and truly original if they had a better script.
May 09, 2014
Beautiful and hallucinatory, the greatest animated romance since Tim Burton's masterpiece CORPSE BRIDE. A revelation.
