Nice enough steampunk-ish (well, period drama really, but with so much steampunk detail that it felt faux-period) kids' film about a boy living in the walls of a Paris railway station, trying to solve a mystery that was left to him by his now-dead father. Quite a lot of cinema history in that rose-tinted way that Hollywood sometimes likes. Lots of famous people in cameo roles - Jude Law, Sacha Baron Cohen, Frances de la Tour, Peter Ustinov, Ben Kingsley, and the lead for Asa Butterfield, before he became famous as Otis from Sex Education.
Whisper it not, but I was a bit bored by the end, despite the chases and the drama. For the most part the peril never felt very perilous. Still, it was lovely to look at.
Watched via informal distribution.
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