If you like his visual style, you might want to check out his other stuff ( Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, and A Very Long Engagement).

Heh. I notice one movie judiciously left OFF that resume.

I liked it even though the adult man + little girl thing skeeves me.

Ron Perleman totally sold that there was nothing skeevy going on.

One of the things I enjoy most about Jeunet's movies is that every once in a while an American actor will pop up, speaking French, and not in an "I'm an American!" way but just as a character. Jodie Foster in A Very Long Engagement, e.g. I didn't even know she knew French!

That was my reaction to Peter Coyote in Bon Voyage.

Thanks for bringing up Amélie, Sail. The convo spurred me to put it on to fall asleep by last night, and I ended up watching start to finish.

Jodie Foster's French is excellent. She went to either a bilingual or all French school when she was growing up. In fact, she does all the dubbing on her own movies when they are dubbed into French.

That was my reaction to Peter Coyote in Bon Voyage.

I have a bizarre love for this movie. Adjani doing comedy is hysterical.

Heh. I notice one movie judiciously left OFF that resume.

Only because I haven't seen it.

What are some of the French cliches in Amelie?

Well, the characters are pretty common stereotypes: the weepy concièrge, the mean grocer/baker, the failed writer/intellectual, the hypochondriac. And then there's the accordian music, Amélie's beret, lots of little details like that. It's like a postcard version of Paris. Which is intentional, there was a lot of digital removing of trash, modern cars, etc. And there are also a number of homages to movies of the 30s and the 60s (for example, the pigeons flying off reference Truffaut).

I have a bizarre love for this movie. Adjani doing comedy is hysterical.

You've never seen her in Possession [link] than?

Totally kidding, but that movie is SO far over the top it doesn't work as anything BUT comedy.

ION, I'm both happy and worried that Mother of Tears, Dario Argento's 3rd movie in the "Three Mothers" trilogy is getting some mainstream press (just saw it mentioned in both EW and the Boston Globe in their summer preview for movies).

Happy, because it may get wide release. Worried, because (a) it might suck compared to Suspiria and Inferno, and (b) because wide release may mean it gets cut for an R rating, which, from what I've heard, it most certainly will NOT get as is. Not that I'm jonesing for watching someone get strangled with her own intestines but I'd like to see the director's vision intact on the big screen and not have to wait for DVD.

Snork.

Netflix tells me that because I rented Dancing at the Blue Iguana, I will like Les Miserables.

I can, of course, see the correlation between them...uh, no?

Wasn't Foster's degree from Yale in French lit or soemthing like that?