'or, if you prefer..'

Fun little footage assembly piece with enough narrative elements to keep it interesting.

Cute- hard to find though, and the copies available digitally seem to be badly damaged.

Noneless, it's a wonderful short snapshot of Jeunet's early days, and you see some of this influence in Micmacs, which makes this a joy if you pair it thusly...

The use of shadow in this film is extremely inspired, while I don't enjoy it at all points I found it added to the tension exponentially. The design of the puppets also added to this, very surreal and made it a very strange experience, for sure.

I didn't understand a thing that was going on, however. I think it could've been more obvious, and I do not know if I'm just dumb; I understood 'Street of Crocodiles' just fine, it was just very hard to shadow, as mentioned, partly due to the hyperbolised use of shadow.

Interesting, for sure.

I watched this without subtitles and I don't speak French.
Still good for Jeunet's distinctive visuals.

'or, if you prefer..'