Julie Ferrier, who played the character, is fairly flexible and did some of the movement herself. The difficult contortions were performed by Julia Gunthel, also known as Zlata. Jeunet and cinematographer Tetsuo Nagata had discovered Gunthel doing an erotic show in Germany. Tiny Pete's moving sculptures were designed and built by sculptor Gilbert Peyre. The film contains five appearances of the film's poster, usually hidden in quick shots. The film opens with the final sequence of "The Big Sleep", with the original score by Max Steiner. Steiner's score is used throughout the film, but Jeunet also required original music. The music which appears is by Raphaël Beau, an unknown school teacher with no prior professional recording or scoring experience. Beau composed music cues for various scenes. Jeunet loved his music but moved the songs to different scenes in the final version of the film. Jeunet also decided to reference his earlier film "Amélie" in the shot when Bazil first lowers his microphone into a chimney. The planned scene would show Amelie and Nino in a small apartment with several crying children. "Amélie" star Audrey Tautou was shooting "Coco Before Chanel", and was unavailable to shoot the scene. The shot was replaced by an homage to Jeunet's "Delicatessen". In the final scene, Dominique Pinon sits with Marie-Laure Dougnac and plays a musical saw. According to Box Office Mojo, "Micmacs" grossed $16,331,174 in the worldwide box office. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 74% approval rating with an average rating of 6.6/10 based on 133 reviews. Metacritic gave the film a score of 62 out of 100, based on 31 critics.