What a beautiful movie!

The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Creepy doll movies aren't really my thing. I like Chucky, but that's mainly because Brad Dourif sounds like the love child of Jack Nicholson and Tom Waits. In general though, I'm not a doll kinda guy. I do enjoy the occasional bad movie however, so it was with that special mixture of trepidation and excitement that I pressed play on Marronnier.The film opens with a young woman being kidnapped, dragged into a van and sliced up with piano wire. Then it flips to some strange cutesy date that ends with the girl turning into a lifesize doll, much to the dude's dismay. Then there's some fast-motion teeth brushing. 5 minutes in and I don't have a damn clue what's going on, but it's already loaded with ludicrous overacting, bad SFX and totally unnecessary slo-mo and fast-mo. Oh yeah! That's the stuff! Eventually we find out some semblance of a plot which makes as much sense as explaining the colour blue to a blind man by speaking sign language to his guide dog. It's got something to do with a guy who makes a doll from his lover's corpse, then starts making more dolls using an eerie pink iron lung, a sewing machine and pond water. There's other stuff going on too (including MORE sped up tooth brushing!!! Yay!!) but I didn't much care to follow the story too closely. It's complete nonsense obviously, but still it's hard to criticise a movie too harshly when it gives us a random battle-axe vs. sledgehammer duel.Keeping in line with the tone of the piece is the amazing musical score, which seems to have been composed by an attention deficit 8 year old screwing around with the programmed tracks on an old Casio keyboard. Often the music will change from eerie noise to seductive jazz to chintzy bubblegum pop, all within the space of a minute, with NOT ONE of the styles being appropriate to what's happening on screen. There's a fine line between madness and genius and, for the makers of Marronnier, that line is called the horizon.I'll finish this review with a question: Are you barber? No. You are not barber. If you want to find out who is barber and why, then you'll have to watch Marronnier. The answer will astound you. Or possibly bore you

WOW......... i can honestly say this is one of THE worst movies I've ever seen. the acting is pretty poor, the music is awful(I'm talking 80's B movie bad),and the script....um what exactly is going on here???? the concept looks good on paper... guy kills girls, turns girls into dolls, dolls come to life. so what went wrong??? its like the writer just put down the ideas as they came to mind and didn't actually bother to arrange them into anything linear and understandable. it starts with one storyline and then BAM! you're looking at new characters and a new storyline. just as you start to think you know whats going on BAM! new storyline.... add in a few bizarre flashbacks and you are seriously starting to wonder if you haven't fallen asleep watching a few times (i actually did... took 3 tries to get through it) next throw in some bizarre puppet show scenes, some naked doll bondage and some insect eating scenes and this film is like a really bad drug trip.SPOILER ALERTIF you manage to make it to the end, you will find yourself in a world of pain. The 2 main characters duke it out with the bad guy in one of THE worst scenes yet. a woods chase leads to the main character somehow getting hit by the bad guys Axe which seems to take an eternity to actually swing, and despite losing her arm, she manages to hit him in the eye with a pick Axe she pulls from....where???? it must be a ninja Axe that stayed invisible the whole scene and then is miraculously hanging UPSIDE DOWN somewhere in her dress.... flash to some creepy doll scenes and the fight is somehow taken to a room full of wedding dresses and flashing forward to a really stupid ending.

OK...you remember those movies in high school film classes? Remember the ones that tried really hard to be creepy and gory with ketchup and jump cuts? Those movies were TEN TIMES BETTER than this one. There is no telling what is going on at any point in the movie. This is for sure though: there's a girl, this guy kills girls and turns them into dolls, and the dolls come to life. I'm really disappointed, because being an avid horror fan who's always looking for a new and unique scare, I really thought this had potential. NO. The film work is juvenile at best, and the plot is so incoherent that it's difficult to even pay attention. You want a bottom line? Here's my advice: watch Puppetmaster.

I wish I could give this film a negative number just to emphasize how AWFUL it is. To be honest, I'm not even sure how to begin to explain it. Here goes: It basically concerns a man, who's name escapes me at the moment, well, anyway, this fella has a fetish with dolls. He takes his fetish with dolls a little too far and begins killing women to make his dolls. In the end, he said he just wanted to make girl's dreams come true. That's about it folks. As stupid and amateur as can be. Usually I enjoy foreign films, but as with American films, there is plenty of junk to be had. I just wish I could get a refund! Do yourself a favor, avoid this film. And seeing that I am the first one to review it, I set the tone hopefully.