Surrealism to portray what we call reality. Represent comedy drama. A fun comic to show tough post-apocalyptic landscapes and societies. Are some of the characteristics that define the work of this great film director who brought a freshness to the film scene and needed an identifiable style and unmistakable, as is usually conspicuous by their absence. Jean-Pierre Jeunet was born on September 3, 1953 in the city of Roanne, Loire, in the Rhône-Alpes. And at 17 was interested in film and began shooting short with the first chamber was purchased. While studying animation at Cinémation Studios befriended the designer and comic book artist Marc Caro, who became his collaborator and co-director for a long time, running together several award-winning animated films.
His first short film and real people was "The Bunker of the Last Gunshots" in 1981 on soldiers in a futuristic world. It was with this same theme related to retro-futuristic dystopian societies with which it was released worldwide 10 years later, in 1991, when the inimitable film he shot with Marc Caro, "Delic to tessen ", went around the world thanks on originality, consolidating it as one of the new great directors of the 90.
Filmography:
Delicatessen ("Delicatessen," 1991): With a hilarious comic aesthetic reinforced by the style of filming the movie and the first planes used, the film is set in a apartment complex in a post-apocalyptic France ambiguous time. It is a dilapidated building in a rural France and post-apocalyptic 1950. Food is scarce, the grain is used as currency and the animal population is hunted almost to extinction by ingenious devices that simulate the sounds of the different animal species in order to attract them. At the foot of the building is a butcher shop belonging to the landlord, Clapper, who placed ads looking for workers at the paper "Hard Times" to lure victims to the building, killing them and selling them as meat for the inhabitants of the building. The unemployed clown Louison, played by Dominique Pinon, Jeunet fetish actor, arrives for the vacant and during routine maintenance disc befriends Julie, daughter of the butcher and disgusted by what his father does, who will begin a relationship. Julie descends to the pipes to find the dreaded Troglodytes, a rebel group of terrorists vegetarian (great and ironic nod to our disastrous way of life based on the exploitation of animals) who convinces them to bail out Louison, aware that his father intended to kill him and sell it in the carnage. Louison, Julie and vegetarians out winners thanks to strategies that border the absurd despite its effectiveness, and is grateful that a film like this is raised in the form of comedy, with lighting and color that tends to sepia and where abound, with a fantastic soundtrack, the correlations between sounds and actions from different floors, as when frecuancia sound of the springs of the bed while the butcher and her lover have sex is increasing and encourages the other neighbors also increase the speed of their activities by listening to the docks, and work on chain could be called "butterfly effect." The fact that the entire film was recorded in study gives, if anything, it was best to this great film which provided a new vision to the cinema of the time. 
La cité des enfants perdus ("The City of Lost Children," 1995): In this movie again conducted with Marc Caro and shot entirely indoors, with a nod to filmmakers like Terry Gilliam and Jean Cocteau, a mad genius, brilliant scientist Krank, an older man can not dream and living on a platform at sea, is dedicated to kidnap orphans and abandoned children to store their dreams through a machine and rejuvenate due to accelerated aging caused by his inability to dream. This scientist was created in turn by another missing man that caused his inability to dream so much as to mourn, so no emotions. The first scientific attempt to create the pefect family. A beautiful and tender woman who turned out to be a treacherous dwarf, another set of clones that unlike his project was intended to be Krank with narcolepsy, and a brain that lives in an aquarium in the scientist's attempt to have a company that was to the same intellectual level. With these colorful characters are the ones that Krank lives on the platform. The cast of characters from the city that resembles a fog surrounded Venice built during the industrial revolution is completed by 2 evil Siamese twins using abandoned children to force them to steal and get rich, providing the same way by a sect Krank individuals who cause blindness and used a device to see the world in a similar manner as seen through infrared cameras, a flea trainer injected into the body of the being found a substance that causes aggression when tamer music sounds, Miette, an orphan girl of 9 years, and One, a strong man of few words and big heart who wants to get his younger brother disappeared and establishes a close relationship with the child. These last 2 characters will be responsible for solving the network of child exploitation. As was the case in "Delicatessen" , the plot is populated by "butterfly effect" caused by situations that border on the absurd, and that in turn result in consequences, all in the service of defending the emotions and innocence.
Alien: Resurrection ("Alien: Resurrection", 1997): 2 centuries later the death of Ellen Ripley is cloned it for military purposes within the alien queen that was brewing in the third part of the series, causing a fusion between the human organism and the alien both alien and in own Ellen Ripley. Little else is there to say about this film commission that all you have is the team personnel usual Jeunet (actors, cinematographer, etc.., And to work with the same equipment is another hallmark of Jeunet) and some surreal aesthetic, with no further aim than mere entertainment for the masses and the enrichment of the producer, but you have to pay attention and what is important is Jeunet that the film was intended as a profit to begin his solo career, and without Marc Caro and no problems in carrying out their projects, which got thoroughly and more than satisfactory. 
Le destin d'Amélie Poulain fabuloux ("The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain", 2001): With this, his first solo feature author, written with Guillaume Laurant and road and outdoors, Jeunet got everyone connected his name with "Amélie" , more perhaps even than "Delicatessen" . Playing again with the chain reactions and eccentric characters, Jeunet portrays the life of a beautiful, generous, shy and lonely young man with a boundless imagination that in a dreamlike and colorful life Paris aims to fix all the world until circumstances lead her to fix his own, building the fabulous destiny, as the title says, on the fly so that the chain of coincidences sometimes gets searched to find the love and peace, all accompanied by the beautiful soundtrack composed by Yann Tiersen and lighting, plans and movements camera that fit their personal style was already in their first 2 long. Surrealism at its best. C'est l'amour ... 
A Very Long Engagement ("A Very Long Engagement," 2004): Based on a novel by Sebastien Japrisot, the film starring Audrey Tautou again for the story of a young woman desperately seeking lame her boyfriend disappeared in the First World War, convinced that he is dead. Mathilde, as it is called the protagonist, begins his arduous search to find each of the survivors of the trench in which 5 soldiers, among whom was her boyfriend, self-mutilation to escape the army, with the risk of being convicted to death if it was found that the damage was self-inflicted. Mathilde begins to contrast the stories of all and find out the whereabouts of persons involved in them in an indirect way to make ends meet. Although there are nods to absurd as in his earlier films, and of course, the correlation of events, is much more dramatic than the previous stories Jeunet, accompanied by the beautiful soundtrack of Angelo Badalamenti and already showing a clear antiwar position to show the miseries of war, antiwar which also would build its suguiente film.
-larigot Micmacs (Micmacs: A crazy plan ", 2009): Written as" Amélie " by Jeunet with Guillaume own Laurent, tells the story of Bazil, a 30-year-old boy was injured when leaving the video store where she works after hearing gunshots and cars skidding. One of the shots goes to his head, and the surgeon decided to leave the bullet but may die at any moment because of the risk to a vegetable is whether to intervene surgically. After becoming unemployed and sleeping on the street meets a group, of course, extravagant characters to include a contortionist, a human cannonball or a girl who performs mathematical calculations instantly, among others, and to help to take revenge on the arms manufacturers of both the bullet that struck him as the anti-personnel mine that killed his father when Bazil was a kid and that is also dedicated to providing weapons to terrorist organizations. Needless to say that revenge is funny, because with this film Jeunet returned to Surrealism and the chain of absurdities. Described as a cross between "Delicatessen" and "Amelie" , and in fact shows a stage lighting and similar to those of the first and some plots and dialogues similar to those of the second, sharing the essence of both that has maintained throughout his films, so that did not satisfy lovers of "Delicatessen" or lovers "Amélie" but although both are certainly better than "Micmacs" should not detract from it, and that will fully satisfy those who love cinametográfico Jeunet as director and storyteller. Unfortunately, although the film was released worldwide in early 2010 and has been released on DVD a long time in other countries, in Spain and was released in theaters or being released on DVD. Do you come to release? Maybe, but movie buffs know well the number of films that come to see even 2 years after its world premiere and even fail to be released, including films from acclaimed directors. But of course, between the law antidescargas if it works effectively includes previously unreleased / released or discontinued, and that most people are down for the public works and mass absolutely ignores the rest of the very wide range, clearly and obviously we will reach out to our great cultural level ... Perhaps even before "Micmacs" be released or DVD releases and will be premiering in your next film, but do not hesitate, Jean-Pierre, that boundless love your complaint surrealism as an alternative to a bland and artificial reality always follow you closely.
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