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Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a french film of genre Drama released in USA on 24 september 2014 with Jean Rochefort
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2014)
La Mécanique du cœur
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Add to a movie listJack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is an animated feature film based on the concept album by the French rock band Dionysos, and on the illustrated novel La Mécanique du cœur written by the band's lead singer Mathias Malzieu. The music of the film was entirely composed by Dionysos.
The original French language version, Jack et la mécanique du cœur, which translates literally as Jack and the Mechanics of the Heart, was released in October 2013, with English-, German-, Finnish- and Spanish-language versions following in 2014.
Synopsis
In Edinburgh, Scotland 1874, Jack is born on the coldest day ever. Due to the extreme cold he is born with a frozen heart which will not beat. The attendant midwife Madeleine saves his life by replacing his heart with a fragile but working cuckoo clock. She then advises him of three rules to prevent his untimely death; he must never play with the hands of the clock, he must never lose his temper, and finally he must never fall in love. Jack's mother, for reasons known only to her, quickly decides her child would be better raised by Madeleine and departs, leaving Jack. Madeleine, incapable of bearing her own children, raises and loves him as her own.Actors
Jean Rochefort
(Méliès (voice))
Rossy de Palma
(Luna (voice))
Olivia Ruiz
(Miss Acacia (voice))
Marie Vincent
(Madeleine #1 (voice))
Grand Corps Malade
(Joe (voice))
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