Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a French film director, known for his visual style and focus on form as well as subject.
Selected Filmography
(1991) Delicatessen
Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasional prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants.
(1995) The City of Lost Children
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
(1997) Alien Resurrection
200 years after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/Alien hybrid clone who must continue her war against the Aliens.
(2001) Amelie
Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love.
(2004) A Very Long Engagement
Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.
(2009) Micmacs
A man and his friends come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers.