This movie is based on author/composer Mathias Malzieu's (frontman of the French rock band Dionysos) 2007 book The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart, which later became a concept album for Dionysos before being adapted into this translated French musical. It's not a perfect film schoolyard bully Joe is a bit overdone, and there's not enough relationship building between Madeleine and her close friends, but you've got to admire the ambition of such a far-reaching love story that crams in historical figures (Jack the Ripper, Georges Melies), humor, and a lot of romance. And, yes, if you're a fan of musicals, that will help, too. Show moreĮnjoyment of this unique period love story will depend on how you feel about animated fare that's more Coraline and Corpse Bridethan Pixar and pixie dust. When a catastrophe sends Jack running away at age 14, he encounters filmmaker/inventor Georges Melies and ends up in Andalusia, Spain, where he again finds Acacia and must decide whether he should risk his heart and life for romance. By the time he attends school, the singer, Miss Acacia ( Samantha Barks) is gone - but Joe, the school bully who also fancied her, is there to make Jack's life as difficult as possible. Convinced he'll find her at the local school, Jack begs Madeleine to let him go, too. Everything changes on his eleventh birthday, when Jack (Orlando Seale) sees a beautiful young flamenco singer at the market and is smitten with her. After the newborn's mother leaves him in Madeleine's care, JACK AND THE CUCKOO-CLOCK HEART grows up with three big rules: Don't touch the hands of his clock heart, don't lose his temper, and don't fall in love. Luckily, the knowledgeable midwife, Madeleine (voiced by Barbara Scaff), knows magic and sets the baby up with the titular cuckoo-clock heart. On the "coldest day on earth" in 18th-century Edinburgh, a young woman gives birth to a boy whose heart freezes.
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