Marc Caro

Marc Caro (born 2 April 1956) is a French filmmaker and comics artist, best known for his projects with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Biography Marc Caro was born in Nantes, the native town of Jules Verne, who made a great impact on him, influenced his love for science fiction and his artistic style. During the 1970s he worked as an editor and designer at Métal hurlant, drew comics for L'Écho des savanes and Fluide Glacial along with Gilles Adrien who would also join Caro on his movie projects. Caro-Jeunet In 1974 Caro met and befriended Jean-Pierre Jeunet at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival which led to a long-lasting collaboration. Together they directed two animated shorts, L'évasion (The Escape, 1978) and Le manège (The Carousel, 1980) which was awarded the César Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 6th César Awards in 1981. Same year they wrote and co-directed a short art film Le Bunker de la dernière rafale (The Bunker of the Last Gunshots) where the pair also worked as cinematographers, editors, set decorators, costume designers, even actors. Caro also produced shorts, ads and music clips on his own. In 1991 they directed their first feature film, a dark comedy Delicatessen which launched their careers: the film won the Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival and Tokyo Gold Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 1991, César Awards for Best Debut and Best Writing at the 17th César Awards (1992) and the Best Director award at the Sitges Film Festival (1993). As Caro described their working process, "Jean-Pierre handles direction in the traditional sense of the word, that is, the direction of the actors, etc., while I do the artistic direction. Beyond that, in the day-to-day workings of the shoot of preproduction, it's obviously much more of a mixture. We write together, film together, edit together. According to each of our specialties, sometimes we'll be drawn to what we do best. There's a real complicity between us.