Marc Caro

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia   Marc Caro born April 2 1956 is a French filmmaker and cartoonist best known for his codirecting projects with JeanPierre Jeunet The two of them met at an animation festival in Annecy in 1974 Together Jeunet and Caro directed awardwinning animations Their first live action film was The Bunker of the Last Gunshots 1981 a short film about soldiers in a bleak futuristic world Jeunet and Caros first feature film was Delicatessen 1991 a melancholy comedy set in a famineplagued postapocalyptic world in which an apartment building above a delicatessen is ruled by a butcher who kills people in order to feed his tenants They next made The City of Lost Children 1995 a dark multilayered fantasy film about a mad scientist who steals childrens dreams so that he can live indefinitely The success of The City of Lost Children led to an invitation to direct the fourth film in the Alien series Alien Resurrection 1997 This is where Jeunet and Caro ended up going their separate ways as Jeunet believed this to be an amazing opportunity and Caro was not interested in a film that lacked creative control working on a bigbudget Hollywood movie Caro ended up assisting for a few weeks with costumes and set design but afterwards decided to work on a solo career in illustration and computer graphics His first feature film as a solo director was entitled Dante 01 Description above from the Wikipedia article Marc Caro  licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia