Jean-Pierre Jeunet, director of Amélie and A Very Long Engagement, returns with a superbly realised adaptation of the bestselling Reif Larsen novel, The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet, with ambitious 3D by Hugo stereographer Demetri Portelli.
Young T. S. Spivet (Kyle Catlett) lives on a Montana ranch with his mother (a beetle-obsessive), father (a wannabe cowboy) and his 14-year-old, pageant-obsessed sister. His brother Layton died in an accident in the family’s barn; T. S. was with him, but doesn’t recall what happened.
A prodigy, T. S. has a passion for maps and scientific inventions, and one day gets a call from the Smithsonian Museum to say that he has won the prestigious Baird prize for his discovery of the perpetual motion machine. Without telling anybody, he sets out on a freight train to journey across the US towards Washington, D. C.
Also starring Helena Bonham Carter, Jeunet’s trademark visual style – highly-coloured, mischievous, and full of inventive flair – is much in evidence in this sparky, immensely enjoyable film.
Please note this is a 3D screening