Movie Polls

What is your favorite movie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet?

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet's got a new one on the horizon.  Let's take a look at his current handful of quirky films and see which ones are people's favorites.

Please vote only once in each poll.

Movies referenced in this poll:
Alien: Resurrection
Amélie
The City of Lost Children
Delicatessen
A Very Long Engagement

Re:What is your favorite movie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet?

I've liked / loved them all, but The City of Lost Children was the first I watched and remains my favorite.

Re:What is your favorite movie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet?

Count me out of this one, Jeunet's films leaves me cold - or nauseous.

Re:What is your favorite movie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet?

I voted for Delicatessen but I really like almost everything he's done. I love his visual style and the way he's able to incorporate a lot of info about each character in his films.  Overall, Jeunet is probably in my top 5 favorite filmmakers.

Re:What is your favorite movie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet?

Amélie got my vote, though I have enjoyed most of his films.  Delicatessen is a close second.

Re:What is your favorite movie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet?

I've only seen Amelie and Alien Resurrection, so my hands down favorite of those two would be the former.  I'm working on watching the others; I like Jeunet's visual flair.

Re:What is your favorite movie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet?

protexblue:

Count me out of this one, Jeunet's films leaves me cold - or nauseous.

I think I know what you might be getting at.  For me Amelie epitomizes the "quirky" foreign film that is strange and fun enough for the average American to love, but not challenging or alien enough to put them off.  I did think it was enjoyable enough, but I'm rather off put by the astouding reception it has had in that area.  Delicatessen would probably be my favorite.  I guess I like the strange distopian world.  The characters were still "quirky" but a bit more dark and less cloying from my memory.  Or maybe it's just because it was my first film of his and the style was newer and more striking to me.

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I'd say my favorite is City of Lost Children because it's the most interesting and shows a more comprehensive dystopic vision than Delicatessen. However, you could also say that Delicatessen tactfully avoids most contact with the outside world and unravels like a play in a very limited setting......but despite my second-guessing, I still like City of Lost Children better. I just bought Amelie and am going to watch that within the next week or so, so maybe that'll change my opinion. I haven't seen the Alien movie, or A Very Long Engagement.

Re:What is your favorite movie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet?

Risselada:

Delicatessen would probably be my favorite.  I guess I like the strange distopian world.

I've just never had a thing for dystopian movies where everything is suddenly steam powered, brown, and cumbersome - yet somehow beyond our current capabilities. My contempt for any human who has industrial technology and still chooses to build a huge city of rusting junk just won't let me. Personally, Jeunet's films (or the four I've seen) seem to lack subtlety of any kind - in the narrative, performances and above all the design. Like Tim Burton, his "style" (i.e. art direction) is so heavy-handed that people who don't normally pay attention to such things can spot it from the first frame, and odds are after the film they'll recall the major set pieces before they could name a non-titular character. If directors are like magicians (and Orson Welles would argue they are) then Juenet is the cinematic David Blaine - even if he's capable of pulling off the trick, it's spectacle before substance every time.

Re:What is your favorite movie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet?

protexblue:

Risselada:

Delicatessen would probably be my favorite.  I guess I like the strange distopian world.

I've just never had a thing for dystopian movies where everything is suddenly steam powered, brown, and cumbersome - yet somehow beyond our current capabilities. My contempt for any human who has industrial technology and still chooses to build a huge city of rusting junk just won't let me. 

Well the definition of the society is distopian, so I think it's appropriate that you would have contempt for it.  That's the idea.  I think there's something quite true to this image though that's quite close to our current society.  We have a lot of new technology, but it's put to use in very temporary ways and often to people who have money.  You may see some of the most wealthy people with all the newest technology available.  But in a lot of people's lives they are living with technology from many different eras that often looks strange next to each other or isn't compatable.  Some technology is created just to kind of help people who are using different eras of technology and can't afford a full upgrade as you will.  Head to some poorer parts of a big city or to third world countries and see people living in delapadated old buildings who might have cell phones as just one tiny example.