Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Movies and TV Shows

Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a French film director and screenwriter known for the films Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Alien: Resurrection and Amélie. Jean-Pierre 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 co-director. They met at an animation festival in Annecy in 1974. Together, Jeunet and Caro directed award-winning 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 Jarre's Zoolook (together with Caro). Jeunet's 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 Caro's first feature film was Delicatessen (1991), a melancholy comedy set in a famine-plagued post-apocalyptic 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, multi-layered fantasy film about a mad scientist who steals children's dreams so that he can live indefinitely.[3] 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 big-budget 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 2'25" film for Chanel N° 5 featuring his frequent collaborator Audrey Tautou. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Jeunet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Personal info

  • Gender: Male
  • Date of birth: 03/09/1953 (71 years old)
  • Place of birth: Roanne, Loire, France
Year
Genre
IMDB
TMDB
Available on the following streaming services in the UK
Bigbug
IMDB 5.5
TMDB 53%
role:
Producer & 1 more
2022

Comedy

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

5.5
53%
2013

Adventure

Drama

Family

7.0
68%
Micmacs
IMDB 7.1
TMDB 66%
role:
Writer & 2 more
2009

Action

Comedy

Crime

7.1
66%
A Very Long Engagement
IMDB 7.6
TMDB 73%
role:
Director & 1 more
2004

Drama

Romance

War & Politics

7.6
73%
Amélie
IMDB 8.3
TMDB 79%
role:
Writer & 1 more
2001

Comedy

Romance

8.3
79%
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
IMDB 8.2
TMDB 82%
role:
Screenplay & 2 more
2000

Action

Adventure

Animation

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8.2
82%
1997

Action

Horror

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.2
62%
Delicatessen
IMDB 7.5
TMDB 73%
role:
Director & 1 more
1991

Comedy

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

7.5
73%
1989

Comedy

7.6
71%

FAQs

Some movies or TV shows available in the UK starring or involving Jean-Pierre Jeunet are, for example, Bigbug, The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet and A Very Long Engagement.
The streaming services with the largest selection are Prime Video, iTunes and Amazon.
The best StreamFat ratings are Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (8.2), Amélie (8.1) and A Very Long Engagement (7.5).