![]() ![]() This opening scene is the first of many scattered throughout the movie that capture the atmosphere of a child's fevered nightmare with an astonishing intensity. Suddenly the child, named Denree (Joseph Lucien), finds himself on the streets of a murky harbor city peopled with carnival characters, among them his adopted brother, a half-witted circus strongman with Munster features named One (Ron Perlman). So begins the provocative but impossibly convoluted cinematic fantasy "The City of Lost Children." As the boy's excitement turns to apprehension, the walls begin to crinkle and everything becomes wavy and distorted. ![]() He is followed by another Santa Claus and another until the place is teeming with ominously jolly Santas. Moments later, a Santa Claus plops into the fireplace, brushes himself off and steps into the room. ![]() It is a cozy Christmas Eve, and a toy soldier on the windowsill of a little boy's bedroom comes to life and begins beating on his cymbal. ![]()
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