Jean-Pierre Jeunet

And it's actually early in the film when Zodiac attacks a couple near Napa, which happens to be on September 27th, 1969, which is about 17 minutes into this two hour and 37 minute movie.

And as it is the 28th of September, we're gonna wa- be watching Amélie from 2001, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou.

Now, I can't quite actually remember the first time that I actually saw this movie, but it was probably really close to its release.

More than likely as soon as it came out on home video is when I got around to seeing this movie.

And I don't think we'll ever see it again.

I actually actually I do want to chime in here because this is actually in keeping with a clearly conversation that they had earlier in it, because my understanding is for Alien Resurrection, the Jeunet film.

the newborn at the end that they the thing they refer to as the newborn um the original concepts were that it would have um have the reproductive organs of both sexes and they worked on that for a while and they just kept being like i don't think i don't think we're allowed to do this so again like they and like they do like with um in romulus with the offspring um which is like that engineer being at the end of Romulus, it just has like, it's a Ken doll, you know? There's just nothing there.

So this is actually, that's, Ridley Scott was very much in keeping with what sounds like is a conversation on half of these movies, is like...

What's the how are we approaching it this time, boys? Yeah, of

course.

J.P. Jeunet is the first one to kind of come up with the idea, though.

Yeah, that guy is a

Who else? I mean...

I've kind of soured on Jean-Pierre Jeunet over the years.

Sure.

But there was a time I would have said he would have been good for that.

That brings us to the man who made Seven looks the way it looks, and the director of photography in Darius Conjie.

This was his eighth feature film, and up to this point, he'd worked almost entirely in French cinema, most notably with Jean-Pierre Jeunet on Delicatessen and the City of Lost Children.

So an Iranian French cinematographer, not many in America had really heard of at this time, Westy.

But how does Seven look? I'm in love with

I remember waking up.

I had an interview with Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the director of Amelie, scheduled for the morning.

I was leaving my hotel, and I saw on a TV that one plane had hit.

And I thought, well, that's bizarre.

Although it turns out he was sitting in kind of a squeaky chair, so I'm sorry for the background noise.

And David picked Delicatessen, the first feature from Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, and one of the key arthouse genre films of the early 90s.

It's set in a post-apocalyptic landscape somewhere in France, where a small community of eccentrics has survived thanks to the innovations of a local butcher, Monsieur Clapet, who's been serving up drifters and visitors to the tenants of his apartment building.

But when a former circus performer wanders into town and falls for Clapet's sweet-natured daughter, Juliette, Things get complicated, and it's up to Juliet and her fellow tenants to save her boyfriend from Kleppe's cleaver without incurring the butcher's wrath themselves.

It was, you know, it's very hard from our, you know, 400 film library to pick one that I want to talk about.

But I thought that Delicatessen was one that had kind of sort of a crossover, a mainstream crossover, relatively mainstream as far as Severin is concerned.

But also one that's kind of underseen and sort of being, falling out of... you know the popular culture eyes and it really needs to be seen because it is a remarkable first film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro it's been kind of eclipsed by Jeunet people now assume that Jeunet was the filmmaker and Marc Caro was just you know there somehow but they very much were a team and their first two films or their only two films together feature films together were Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children, both of which are incredible, incredible works.

Genet, of course, went on then to make Amelie and that became a worldwide sensation.

Are there

any Jean-Pierre Jeunet defenders here?

What, for Resurrection? Yeah.

I mean, no.

Like you had said, it's like, you know, you just love how absurd, you know, French comedy can really go and not feel like to the point where there's a, there's a moment of this that is just straight up full cartoon where Zorg's henchman guy is piloting a robotic cockroach into the president's chambers and, And

you'd see this kind of stuff in Jean-Pierre Jeunet flicks, too.

Absolutely.

Like Big Bug and that kind of stuff.