Can you get drunk by eating waffles?

MICMACS is a strange little film, but then what else would you expect from the director of Amélie, and uh, Alien Resurrection (understandable that they left that off the posters).
Bazil (played by French comic Dany Boon) is a young boy when his father is killed by a landmine in the Sahara. 20 or so years later working in a video store, a stray bullet from a gun fight outside the shop lodges itself in his brain. Doctors decide (with the aid of a coin toss) not to operate, as this would have left him in a vegetative state. Doing so however, means that Bazil could drop dead at any moment. After leaving the hospital, Bazil finds himself both homeless and jobless.
He eventually falls in with a group of scrap-merchants, who include a human-cannonball, a contortionist and a man who rarely talks in anything but clichés. When collecting scrap metal, Bazil happens across the offices of two arms manufacturers, one of whom made the landmine that killed his father, and the other, the bullet lodged in his brain. With the help of his new family, he decides to take them both down.
It’s rare that I find myself out of bed, let alone out of the house at 10am on a Sunday, but the preview screening of this managed to get me out of both, despite the rather inclement weather and a stonking headache. It’s an immensely enjoyable, inventive and beautifully shot film, not quite as good as Amélie, but then Jean-Pierre Jeunet set the bar pretty high with that film. I think I may well be casting my eye over his previous work again soon.