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..
1966, Paris, France
1973, London, England, UK
1 January 1980, Carcassonne, Aude, France
30 August 1978, England
2 October 1990, Isle of Man, UK
24 November 1944, Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
28 December 1988, Killarney, Ireland
13 December 1958, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK
15 May 1955, Marseille, France
19 September 1958, Henley-on-Thames, England, UK
1964, Cherbourg, Manche, France
16 April 1974, Montpellier, France
31 July 1977, Le Blanc-Mesnil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
28 June 1968, Vernet-les-Bains, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
March1966, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
16 September 1964, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
1 December 1947, Paris, France
29 April 1930, Dinan, Cote-d'Armor, France
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.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 endMay 09, 2014
Beautiful and hallucinatory, the greatest animated romance since Tim Burton's masterpiece CORPSE BRIDE. A revelation.September 23, 2014
Rich with imagination and a pure pleasure to watch.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.October 06, 2014
This is a special gem of a movie.September 22, 2014
Eccentric with some striking design touches, but humorless and heartlessSeptember 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.September 26, 2014
Imaginative steampunk musical is too dark for little kids.