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Life and careerJean-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 Jeunet's longtime collaborator and co-director.
Jeunet and Caro's first feature film was Delicatessen (1991), a black comedy set in a famine-plagued post-apocalyptic world, in which a block of flats above a delicatessen is ruled by a butcher who kills people in order to feed his tenants. Next came The City of Lost Children (1995), a dark, multi-layered fantasy film with a twisting plot about a doctor who kidnaps children in order to steal their dreams. The success of The City of Lost Children led to an invitation to direct the fourth movie in the Alien series - Alien: Resurrection (1997). Like his subsequent films, this one is credited only to Jeunet, although Caro did some work on the art design. Though not well received by critics, Alien: Resurrection turned a profit at the box office.
In 2004, Jeunet released A Very Long Engagement, an adaptation of the novel by Sebastien Japrisot set after World War I, during which a woman (played by Audrey Tautou) seeks for her missing lover. In 2005, it was announced that Jeunet had agreed to direct an adaptation of Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi for 20th Century Fox. StyleJeunet's films are notable for their colour scheme which is dominated by sepia tones and by the colours red, yellow, blue and green. Jeunet seeks out actors with unusual faces for his films, and frequently uses wide-angle lenses to distort human features and sets. CollaboratorsJeunet likes to work with the same team of filmmakers and repeatedly casts similar actors. His usual 'team' includes the following:
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