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Jean-Pierre Jeunet (born 3 September 1953, Loire - France) is a French film director. Many of Jeunet's earlier films, collaborations with designer and co-director Marc Caro , are set in a dystopic retro-future , culminating in the gritty but charming The City of Lost Children in 1995.
The success of City led to an invitation to direct the fourth movie in the Alien series - . Though not well received by critics, Alien: Resurrection brought in money at the box office, and the clout of having a Hollywood film under his belt gave Jeunet free rein on his next project, Amélie.
Amélie, a more upbeat story set in Montmartre, was nominated for several Academy Awards.
Jeunet deliberately seeks out actors with unusual faces for his films, and frequently uses wide-angle lenses to distort human features and sets. Actor Dominique Pinon has appeared in all four of Jeunet's full-length films, Ron PerlmanRonald Francis Perlman (born April, 1950) is an American actor. He was born in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York. He is married to Opal Perlman from February 14, 1981 to the present. He has two children, Blake Amanda (b. 1984), and Brandon Avery (b. appears in both City and Resurrection, and Audrey TautouAudrey Tautou (born August 9, 1978) is a French actress, born in Beaumont, Puy-de-Dome, France. In 2000, she won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as her country's most promising young film actress. She is best known to English moviegoers as the title character appears in both Amélie and A Very Long EngagementA Very Long Engagement is a 2004 World War I film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. External Links ..