#贵圈十万个为什么 Essay # I love movies and like countless directors, and there are only a few directors whose films are my must-sees, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet is one of them. Throughout the history of cinema, Jean-Pierre Genet is also a unique presence, and can even be said to be an outlier.
For domestic film fans, most of the people who know Jean-Pierre Genet are through the popular "Angel Amelie", in fact, before this, he has filmed several popular masterpieces, and is one of the most high-profile French directors after Luc Besson. His films are both romantic and poetic, but also weird and absurd, and under the sharp irony of black humor, there are innocent and beautiful fairy tales, which is really a master of "dark fairy tales" in the film industry.
Born on 3 September 1953 in Rouen, Loire, France, Jean-Pierre Genet showed an interest and talent for filming from an early age. At the age of 9, he used a camera and flashlight to animate toys; at the age of 17, he used the money saved from working in a postal company to buy his first 8-mm camera, and through self-taught animation skills, he shot a lot of short films; since his student days, René has been known for his creative power, known as "ghost talent" because of his wild imagination, and has shot many creative experimental short films.
In fact, René was first engaged in the filming and production of television commercials, music videos and video clips. In the '80s, together with his partner Marc Caro, he shot a lot of works with strong personalities, a strong sense of black humor and bizarre visual effects. It wasn't until 1991 that he co-directed the first feature film, "Rhapsody of the Black Shop", with Mark Carroll, when he was 38 years old.
The story told in "Rhapsody of the Black Shop" takes place in a mysterious and absurd world where the era and region are unknown, and the dark yellow color tone and the ambiguous light and shadow all reveal a dark mystery. The characters in it are either cunning and sinister, or benevolent and brave, or only promise to protect themselves, and in extreme circumstances, they launch a contest between good and evil in human nature. The film is dark and grotesque, but full of fairy tale meaning, showing the brilliance of human nature. After its release, it caused quite a stir, and won the 4th Tokyo International Film Festival Youth Film Cherry Blossom Gold Award, the 46th British Academy Film Award nomination for best foreign language film, the César Award for ten nominations for four awards, and René won the César Award for Best New Director. It can be described as a world war fame, and the distinct personal style and unique visual effects have also begun to emerge.
In 1995, René co-directed the 10-year-old "Night of lost souls" with Mark Carroll. The film tells the story of an icy steel island with steam, and the omnipotent doctor, because he can't dream, directs his men to kidnap children and try to steal their dreams, but they can only get one nightmare after another. In order to save his brother who was abducted by Dr. Strange, the protagonist unites a group of orphan thieves and engages in a deadly struggle with Dr. Strange. The film is still full of dark and gloomy atmosphere, a variety of creative and interesting character settings, mysterious and imaginative visual effects, and constructs a strange dream of evil and eerie but good and immortal. The irony of the film is also quite obvious - in this omnipotent society, human beings are passionate about technology, but they have lost some of their most basic survival instincts.
Perhaps it was the cold and terrifying atmosphere in "The Night of the Lost Souls" that Cena caught Hollywood's attention. In 1997, the famous space thriller Alien invited René to direct the fourth installment of the series, Alien 4: Reborn from The Fire. This was René's first solo director and his first time directing an English-language film. In the film, René showed more mature scene scheduling ability and outstanding entertainment effect expression, continuing the good reputation of this series, and also bringing "Alien" the unique humanistic and ethical thinking of European directors.
However, the success in Hollywood did not leave Genes nostalgic, and he turned around and returned to France. In 2001, he wrote and directed the world-famous "Angel Amelie". The film shoots some heavy topics in a funny and interesting way, with impactful visual effects, very substitutionary small details of life, full of whimsy and the absurd weirdness of The Genesis, all of which make fans around the world fascinated. With keen insight, René captures some interesting, ordinary moments of brilliance, interpreting the true meaning of life's beauty and happiness from a new perspective. This kind of romantic and poetic details from real life make the whole film have a strong appeal. Therefore, "Angel Amelie" swept more than 20 film awards in the world that year, and became the highest-grossing film in France at that time.
In 2004, René took the original team of "Angel Amelie" and filmed the war romance film "The Long Marriage Contract". The film skillfully blends comedy and tragedy, telling the story of the disabled heroine who tirelessly searches for her lover who has been forcibly recruited, showing the cruel battlefield and the comfortable pastoral life with extremely complicated details, forming a strong contrast and expressing the cherishing of a beautiful and peaceful life. "The Long Marriage" was released to rave reviews, almost reproducing the grandeur of "Angel Amelie" that year, known as "the best French film in three years", receiving 12 César Award nominations5, and receiving favor from several international film festivals and 77th Oscar nominations.
In the two films that followed in 2009's "Enjoy the Game" and 2013's "The Strange Journey of Young Spyvi", both continued The consistent style of René, and also achieved good results and word of mouth.
Jean-Pierre Genet is not a prolific director, having only had 7 feature films in his 40-plus career as a director, but each one has been meticulously crafted and maintained his own unique style. René's film is full of romantic poetry at the same time, but also carries the reflection on society and the concern for humanities, no matter how absurd the characters are in the film, how strange the plot is, how strange the background is, you can always touch the warmth in the cold of the film, see the light in the darkness, from the exaggerated weirdness, get the observation and thinking about the essence of life.
If you want to ask who is the "dark fairy tale master" in the film industry? None other than Jean-Pierre Genet.
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