Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Directing·Sep 3, 1953·Roanne, Loire, France

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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.

Film	Credit
VViolette2026 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Original+2025 · Self - Guest	Self - Guest
Alien: Terror in Space2025 · Self - Filmmaker	Self - Filmmaker
Amélie: The Real Story2023 · Self, Director, Writer	Self, Director, Writer
Bigbug2022 · Producer, Screenplay, Director	Producer, Screenplay, Director
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus2021 · Self (archive footage)	Self (archive footage)
Looop2019 · Producer	Producer
Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel2017 · Self	Self
Two Snails Set Off2017 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Casanova2015 · Director	Director
Riding a Train of Thoughts2014 · Self	Self
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet2013 · Writer, Director, Producer	Writer, Director, Producer
The Extraordinary Voyage2011 · Self - Filmmaker	Self - Filmmaker
Micmacs2009 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"2005 · Self	Self
A Very Long Engagement2004 · Screenplay, Director, Producer	Screenplay, Director, Producer
One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection2003 · Self	Self
The Alien Saga2002 · Self (archive footage)	Self (archive footage)
A Day in the Life of French Cinema2002 · Self	Self
Amélie2001 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Inside the Making of - Amélie2001 · Director	Director
Alien Resurrection1997 · Director	Director
The City of Lost Children1995 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The King of Ads, Part 21993 · Director	Director
Delicatessen1991 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Things I Like, Things I Don't Like1990 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
No Rest for Billy Brakko1983 · Actor, Screenplay, Director	Actor, Screenplay, Director
The Bunker of the Last Gunshots1982 · Actor, Director, Director of Photography, Writer	Actor, Director, Director of Photography, Writer
The Carousel1981 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
L'évasion1978 · Director	Director
TTemps mort autour de Caro & JeunetJean-Pierre Jeunet	Jean-Pierre Jeunet
DDevils and SaintsDirector	Director