causes the young man to feel unwanted by his father, questioning whether his father feels like the wrong son died. His lack of eye contact and warmth towards T.S. T.S’s father, played by Callum Keith Rennie (Memento), is a quiet man, born too late and obsessed with the cowboy way of life, his living room smelling of “whiskey soaked leather and mouldy photographs”, in the words of T.S. takes on an adventure to claim his prize, all the while questioning his place in the world, and within his family. Traveling in trucks and on train lines, meeting people along the way that impart words of wisdom and encouragement on him, T.S. Without informing his family, he packs his suitcase and heads to Washington DC to the reception being held in which he is to be the guest of honour. With the death of his twin brother from a tragic accident in the family barn, his family’s response causes T.S. one day gets a phone call from The Smithsonian in Washington DC, informing him that he is to be presented with a prestigious science award for his creation of a perpetual motion machine, unbeknownst to them that T.S. Spivet (Kyle Catlett), a young 10 year old boy who lives with his parents, his twin brother, Layton and his older sister, Gracie on a ranch in Montana. Spivet” by Reif Larson.Ī moving, bright and quirky tale, this is one of those films that is pretty damn difficult to dislike, and for me it exceeded my expectations which weren’t by any means low. Written by both Jeunet and longtime collaborator Guillaume Laurant, it is based on the novel “The Selected Works of T.S. I was then, of course, excited when I learned that he would be making The Young and Prodigious T.S. The City Of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Mic Macs, and one of my absolute favourites that sits “haut de la pile”, Amelie.

His releases in the world of film have included some of my favourite motion pictures of all time. As a lover of French cinema, an “obsessionnel des contes français”, I of course adore the films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

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