Jean-Pierre Jeunet

JeanPierre Jeunet is a French film director and screenwriter known for the films Delicatessen The City of Lost Children Alien Resurrection and Amélie JeanPierre Jeunet was born in Roanne Loire France He bought his first camera at the age of 17 and made short films while studying animation at Cinémation Studios He befriended Marc Caro a designer and comic book artist who became his longtime collaborator and codirector They 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 also directed numerous advertisements and music videos such as Jean Michel Jarres Zoolook together with Caro Jeunets films often resonate with the late twentieth century French film movement cinéma du look and allude to themes and aesthetics involving German expressionism French poetic realism and the French New Wave 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 indefinitely3 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 Jeunet directed Amélie 2001 starring Audrey Tautou Amélie is the story of a woman who takes pleasure in doing good deeds but has trouble finding love herself was a huge critical and commercial success worldwide and was nominated for several Academy Awards For this film Jeunet also gained a European Film Award for Best Director Jeunet has also directed numerous commercials including a 225 film for Chanel N 5 featuring his frequent collaborator Audrey Tautou Description above from the Wikipedia article JeanPierre Jeunet licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia