The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2014 GR) (English Language)

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112min

Cast: Kyle Catlett, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis…and more

Writer: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant , Reif Larsen

A precocious 10 year old boy-scientist escapes his dysfunctional family in rural Montana and takes an adventure across the USA to accept an award at the Smithsonian Institute for his ground-breaking invention.

Writer/Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie, Delicatessen) brings us another original and surreal presentation with young Kyle Catlett delivering a sterling performance as the title character, a complex boy on an American journey with quirky characters and through the emotional scars of his own childhood.

This film is promoted as a 3D experience although it is hard to see why, it certainly does not rely on 3D and at most it slightly enhances a wonderfully bright colour palette and stunning landscapes of rural and urban America.

It’s probably unfair to pigeonhole an original film like this but the experience is somewhere between Little Miss Sunshine and Life of Pi and not too dissimilar to the Director’s earlier film Amélie, although not as memorable as these films The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet is a visual treat and a quirky heart-warming journey for the whole family.