When I told you at the beginning of July that Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Micmacs would be opening at the end of the month, I meant it. When I told you at the beginning of August that it’d be opening at the ...
French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s (A Very Long Engagement, Amélie) latest, Micmacs-a revenge tale laden with arms trade satire and a light dash of romance-has finally hit store shelves in the "U.S ...
No one makes films quite like Jean-Pierre Jeunet. No one dares try. In a Gallic film industry that sometimes seems either determined to radically antagonize its audience or drown it in dusty good ...
Whatever "Micmacs" are supposed to be, Jean-Pierre Jeunet certainly has made the definitive film about them. The French director whose films include "Amelie" and Delicatessen" combines the spirit and ...
Getting on board with the movie’s wink-wink sensibility isn’t instant. Jeunet’s world is one in which every quirk (obsessive calculations!) and every backstory (post-abuse contortion) is less cause ...
In the early 1600s, French colonizers in what’s now northern Maine and Atlantic Canada wrote admiringly of the native Micmacs’ ornamented fur and leather apparel — robes, bracelets, belts, and ...
Ah yes, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, he's definitely got his fans. Sony Pictures Classics debuted earlier this week the official US trailer (via Yahoo) for Jeunet's new film Micmacs, or Micmacs à tire-larigot ...
“Micmacs” has a “B-” average on criticWIRE, with grades ranging from quite a few “A” level shout outs (including folks from Variety and The Los Angeles Times) to an “F” from Marie Claire‘s Caryn James ...
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Micmacs" is a comic fable about a gang of misfits that takes on the weapons industry and blows their death machines sky high. By Kirk Honeycutt, The Associated Press More Toronto ...
Jeunet, 56, grew up in Nancy, a provincial town in Eastern France, and was an only child until the age of 11: "I was a little solitary," says the director, who apparently displayed a keen business ...