CINEMA

Slick visual gags hide a lack of plot

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Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Selected cinemas, cert 15A

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Amélie director JeanPierre Jeunet’s new film is an entertaining and inventive caper about the international arms trade, told with his signature visual flair.

Opening with a bang, the first section races through the early life of Bazil (Dany Boon), whose soldier father is killed by a landmine in Algeria. His distraught mother is taken away by ...