The City of Lost Children (1995)

There’s a scientist who steals children, a young girl who steals property, and a performing strongman with a big heart who steals the viewer's sympathies. All three exist as characters in a bizarre dark fairytale that you’ll need to 'want' to like in order to do so.
Jeunet’s love of green and orange tints is sickening, they do to the eyes what too much chocolate gateau does to the stomach, but the architecture and general construction of the world are stunning. His imagination deserves praise, even if the film is almost too stylised for its own good.

3½ kettles of fish out of 5