![]() ![]() Jeunet's major achievement is to capture the book's complicated museum clutter and hothouse-flower sensitivity. As we gradually learn, the boy's obsession with collecting and ordering information is an emotional bulwark against family discord and tragedy. ![]() Spivet was a genre-busting sensation that earned a near-$1-million (U.S.) advance: Written in a precocious 12-year-old boy's voice, augmented with illustrations, digressions and extensive marginalia, the book is presented as the journal of a child genius, scientist and map-maker who runs away from his Montana home to receive a major scientific prize from the Smithsonian. Like Amélie, Larsen's The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet is based on Reif Larsen's 2009 children's novel. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the French director of the 2001 art house phenomenon Amélie, makes his first foray into the 3-D format with the adaptation of a young adult novel that matches his digressive, whimsical sensibilities to a fault. ![]()
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