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Simply lovely!!! And what a beauiful photography! It reminded me of "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory", but more arty and cutter.

Un bambino appassionato di cinema, a vision loss and the childhood memories of a great italian sound editor. It will remind you of Cinema Paradiso. Belissimo!!

Touching without being odd. There´s no music telling you it´s time to cry. Everything is just suggested and the storyline takes place in a perfect timing. The cruelty of those times is "covered" by the friendship of the boys (that grows in a very natural and convincent way), but it is still there. Malle perfectly shows the nonsense of the nazism and the innocence of the kids when Julien asks his older boy what is exactly a Jewish and what they had against them. Brilliant!

After watching James Whale's "Frankenstein", a little girl living in a small rural town in Spain, gets fascinated by the monster.
"Why did he kill the girl, and why did they kill him after that?", she asks her older sister that says he hasn´t been killed, first because everything in the movies is fake and second because Frankenstein is a ghost/spirit who lives close by. Even more impressed, Ana tries everything to meet the spirit and goes deep into her own world of reality and fantasy.






I think Ana Torrent was the cuttest kid ever with those beautiful and sad eyes!

It´s far from great, but it´s nice and cute.




For every outsider "child" that at least once thought or wanted to be from Mars or any other planet.

Without the music - those songs that have any other pupose than tell you that it´s time to laugh or cry or feel sad - and a few cliche scenes, it would be almost perfect: the girls are cute and make a very good job, John Cusack is great and the theme is contemporary and urgent (the effects of the Iraq war).