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Modern-Day Fairytales and Beyond
French film director Jean-Pierre Jeunet is known for his quirky storytelling and fantastical settings. The post-apocalyptic apartment building of DELICATESSEN. The haunting city and simple hero of THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN. Or the movie which brought him widespread international attention, AMELIE, the tale of a girl who sets about to fix a few simple things in her life and winds up changing the lives of many people around her.
AMELIE
Amelie
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About Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- JeanPierreJeunet.net :: Official Website
- Le site officiel du réalisateur Jean-Pierre Jeunet, auteur d'Un Long Dimanche de Fiancailles, Amélie Poulain, La cité des enfants perdus, etc... (site has English and French sections)
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet (born 3 September 1953) is a French film director. His films are idiosyncratic fantasies characterized by detailed sets and meandering storylines.
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet - IMDb.com
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a self-taught director who was very quickly interested by cinema, with a predilection for a fantastic cinema where form is as important as the subject.
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet - musicolog.com
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet was born in Roanne, France in 1955. Self-taught, Jeunet started as a director by shooting television commercials, music videos and short films.
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet Biography - Yahoo! Movies
- With an eye for meticulous detail and a rakish sense of humor, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and writing and directing partner Marc Caro have teamed together for more than 15 years, first in making short films, TV commercials and music videos, then in scoring international successes with the features "Delicatessen" (1991) and "La Cite des enfants perdu/The City of Lost Children" (1995).
THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN
The City of Lost Children
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Jeunet Movie Clips and Trailers
DELICATESSEN
Delicatessen
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Interviews and Reviews
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- In a rave review of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie, one critic wrote, "It takes an extraordinarily talented director to navigate the lines between dark comedy, parody, whimsy and camp without getting bogged down by his own self-conscious artfulness." That reviewer and many fans believe Jeunet is that extraordinarily talented director. Other audiences scratch their heads in confusion, and believe he is not.
- Hollywood Gothique: The Fabulous Worlds of Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet is probably most well known to American mainstream audiences for directing ALIEN: RESURRECTION, the fourth entry in the science-fiction franchise starring Sigourney Weaver. But in his native country, he has made a trio of stylish features which he helped conceive and develop from scratch. The first two, DELICATESSEN and THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN, were done in collaboration with Marc Caro. The third -- and so far his best work -- is AMELIE, a romantic comedy fantasy that stands out as one of the best films released last year.
- INTERVIEW: The Fabulous Destiny of Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- If "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" started a new trend -- the foreign film that even mainstream America can't resist -- this year's prime contestant to follow its lead is Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Amelie." But this subtitled sensation will not hook its fans with swordplay, epic romance, or masked bandits. There's not an action sequence in sight or even a bona fide movie star. The film that has broken all French box office records is a fairytale about a Parisian waitress (Audrey Tautou) who messes with her quirky co-workers and neighbors' lives in the hope of making them sweeter -- or a bit more bitter, if her target deserves it.
- GreenCine | Jean-Pierre Jeunet: "Not interested in realist things"
- Always a fantasist, Jean-Pierre Jeunet started off in the arthouse cinemas with Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children, both co-directed and co-conceived with collaborator Marc Caro. He then sidestepped into the mainstream with Alien: Resurrection before finding his true path in the popular and critical successes of Amélie and A Very Long Engagement.
- BBC - Films - interview - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet talks about his film "Amélie", which opened this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival.
More Movies by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
A Very Long Engagement
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Alien Resurrection
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Charlie Rose with Terry George, Don Cheadle & Paul Rusesabagina; Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Audrey Tatou; Renata Adler, Mark Danner & Dennis Johnson. (November 26, 2004)
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