The City of Lost Children

The City of Lost Children 1995

7.24

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

1995

Celestial Clockwork

Celestial Clockwork 1995

3.40

Ana bolts from her wedding altar and flies from Venezuela to Paris to realize her dream of becoming a great opera star.

1995

Taxandria

Taxandria 1996

5.80

A lighthouse guardian leads a young prince towards an imaginary world, Taxandria, where the boy learns about the power of love and the value of liberty. A totalitarian regime has forbidden time: time watches have been confiscated, photo cameras are illegal as they freeze a point in time. A typical Servais theme: a power is oppressed by a constraint that denies what is best in the individual, and therefore has to be twisted in various ways, to establish an entirely artificial world, that has rules that may question some of the rules of our world at this side of the mirror.

1996