Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

Plots: A 19th-century drama about a man whose heart was replaced with a clock when he was born. The situation dictates that he should avoid feeling strong emotions — love, most of all — but he just can’t keep his feelings under wraps. Edinburgh, late 19th century. Little Jack is born on a day so cold that his heart remains frozen. Madeleine the midwife replaces his heart with a cuckoo-clock. It will work, as long as Jack follows the rules, mainly not falling in love. But his encounter with a fiery-eyed girl singing on a street corner and his decision to chase after her will test the resistance of his makeshift heart to the breaking point – Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a magnificent love story set in an exciting period full of fabulous inventions, eccentric characters and fantastic adventures. Adapted by Mathias Malzieu from his best-selling novel and the gold-selling album by his band Dionysos, this superbly animated movie is about passion and acceptance of others. An adventuresome boy with a mechanical clock for a heart seeks the love of his life in late-19th-century Edinburgh in this whimsical animated adventure based on the popular children’s book by Mathias Malzieu (who adapts his own work to the screen alongside co-director Stéphane Berla. His heart frozen when he’s born on the coldest day in history, young Jack gets a second chance at life when the brilliant Doctor Madeleine replaces it with a magical clock. In order to keep it ticking Jack must follow three simple rules: never touch the hands; keep his anger under control; and never fall in love. That final rule is put to the test one day when Jack encounters ethereal street singer Miss Acacia, whose beauty sends his pulse racing. Later, determined to track down the mysterious beauty even if it means risking his own life, smitten Jack sets out on an adventure that will take him from the Scottish all the way to Andalusia.