Cinema Profile: Jean-Pierre Jeunet – France Today | EUROtoday
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Take a take a look at the profession of one among France's most ingenious filmmakers.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet made his identify together with his somewhat magical model of cinema in movies comparable to Delicatessen and Amelie. But all of it started a few years earlier when, as a younger pupil of animation in 1970, the 17-year-old Jeunet purchased his first digital camera.
He started experimenting with quick movies and co-directed various award-winners with Marc Caro, whom he'd met at an animation pageant. Then in 1991, the duo accomplished their first feature-length venture, catapulting Jeunet to worldwide fame. This venture was, after all, Delicatessenwhich was a worldwide success and gained Césars for greatest screenplay and greatest debut.
The pair teamed up once more in 1995 on The City of Lost Children (The City of Lost Children), which gained reward for its trendy particular results and led to Jeunet being invited by Hollywood to direct 1997's Alien: Resurrection. In 2000, he was again on house turf and about to seduce the cinema-going public with the pleasant whimsy of Amelie, which made a star of Audrey Tautou and scooped 5 Oscar nominations, 4 César nominations, and bought greater than 30 million tickets worldwide. Tautou additionally appeared in Jeunet's subsequent venture, An extended engagement Sunday (A Very Long Engagement), tailored from Sebastien Japrisot's novel a couple of girl who units out to learn the way her fiancé actually died within the First World War.
In 2009, Jeunet directed the comedy Micmacs (Micmacs), starring Dany Boon, who pointed a satirical finger on the world arms commerce; after which got here The Young and Prodigious TS Spivet in 2013, a story of a boy cartographer residing on a ranch in Montana starring Helena Bonham Carter and Judy Davis. It gained the César for Best Cinematography.
Which brings us to Bigbug, made for Netflix in 2022, a sci-fi black comedy a couple of group of residents in 2045 whose home robots stage a rebel. “During this project I experienced (all modesty aside) the same thing as Scorsese with The Irishman,” mused Jeunet. “I have been toting this script around in France for four years, and it has been rejected by all (as were Delicatessen and Amelie in their time)… And then one day David Kosse from Netflix wrote from London asking me if I might have a project… A resounding 'yes' with a big smile came back just 24 hours later! Since then we have been living a dream.”