![]() ![]() Ditto for Harry Treadwell, who plays Lina's teenage friend Doon Harrow.ĭitto for most everybody, actually: Martin Landau as an old, somnambulant waterworks engineer Marianne Jean-Baptiste as a kindly gardener Mary Kay Place as a fussy neighbor and Robbins as Doon's dad, an idealistic radical in his youth, now weary with resignation and dashed dreams. Lina has about as much depth and distinctiveness as a videogame hero. In this dark, exciting fantasy, Ember is a vast, self-contained underground world, built generations before as a shelter from some. Ronan - the tragic tattletale of Atonement - holds the camera, and her eyes are amazing, but there's not much for audiences to hang their emotions on. City of Ember's titular star feels like a real "character," much as the house in his animated Monster House creaked and quaked with life.Īlas, City of Ember's human denizens are less fully formed. With elements of Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Marc Caro's and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's City of Lost Children, Kenan's film, then, looks wonderful. The people wear woolly, hippie-esque garb, and the machinery that keeps everything (sort of) running has a rusted, Rube Goldberg kookiness to it. Now, she and her friend Doon must race to figure out the clues to keep the lights on. When Lina finds part of an ancient message, she’s sure it holds a secret that will save the city. ![]() Two hundred years later, the great lamps that light the city are beginning to dim. The city, with its cobbled maze of streets and squares and its patched-up infrastructure, exudes a magical, albeit crumbling, charm. The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. In this post apocalyptic fantasy, the people of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. Much care has gone into the look of City of Ember. ![]()
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