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Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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Director, Screenwriter Born: September 3, 1953 in Rouanne, France Biography:Several years before he helmed the fourth "Alien" film, "Jean-Pierre Jeunet", together with fellow French cinema wunderkind/creative partner "Marc Caro", made his mark on international cinema with two of the most distinctive films of the 1990s. Collaborating throughout the 1980s on ads, music videos, and such shorts as Le Manège (1980), Jeunet and Caro honed their signature visual flair and darkly comic sensibility; Jeunet's solo effort "Foutaises" (1989) won a César for Best Short Film. Bringing their unique style to feature films in the 1990s, Jeunet and Caro's debut work "Delicatessen" (1991) became an international art film sensation. Hailed for its grotesquely comic and oddly touching tale of post-nuclear survival amid a group of eccentrics in an ominous, almost palpably clammy yet cartoon-like "retro future" setting, "Delicatessen" attracted an ardent following and earned several festival prizes... Full Biography
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