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Marc Caro is a French filmmaker and comics artist, best known for his projects with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He co-directed Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children, and worked on Alien Resurrection and Windwalkers.
Marc Caro is a filmmaker who co-directed Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He also worked on Alien: Resurrection, Dante 01 and other projects.
- Director, Writer, Actor
- April 2, 1956
- Marc Caro
- Métal Hurlant
- Delicatessen
- Alien: Resurrection
- Ongoing Experiments
- Into The Future
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“It was the holy grail,” says Caro, describing the decade he spent working for psychedelic comics anthology Métal hurlant. As one of the first publications of its kind to be bought from France for U.S. distribution, its influence can’t be understated — and it was here that the Frenchman first made his name as an illustrator and editor in the mid-‘7...
Following a string of sci-fi short films likeLe bunker de la dernière rafale and the dark stop-motion animation La manège, Caro and filmmaker friend Jean-Pierre Jeunet found themselves at the helm of an emphatic debut feature. A Sweeney Todd-esque tale of a cannibalistic butcher who menaces the inhabitants of a desolate apartment block in a famine-...
Years later, Hollywood came knocking — but like a gestating xenomorph presented before a human ribcage, the Alien franchise would split Jeunet and Caro apart. “Alien: Resurrection was a big machine,” recalls Caro. And while he rues Hollywood’s reductionism when it comes to “building the imaginary,” that wasn’t the dealbreaker in this instance. “Ali...
It would take two decades for Caro and Jeunet to reunite in a creative capacity — for Caro’s short film Loop, in 2018. It was completed the same year that the duo curated a “cabinet of curiosities” from their films in an exhibition of props, concept art, and memorabilia in France. The years in between have been lined with fascinating projects for C...
As far as the future of science fictionis concerned, Caro has great faith in another French-speaking filmmaker. “I can’t wait to see [Dune],” he says of Denis Villeneuve’s forthcoming adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 literary classic — while applauding the director’s integration of the aesthetics of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters i...
Marc Caro is the co-creator of Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children, two dystopian classics of French cinema. He talks to Inverse about his influences, his work, and his plans for his masterpiece.
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Marc Caro is a French director and writer, known for his collaborations with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He has worked on Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children and Alien: Resurrection.
- April 2, 1956
Marc Caro is a French filmmaker and cartoonist, known for co-directing with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He also directed Dante 01, Astroboy in Roboland, and Jean Cocteau and His Tricks.
Jul 24, 2024 · Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's cutting dystopian black comedy from 1991 screens in a new restoration at UW Cinematheque on March 16.
Marc Caro, né le 2 avril 1956 à Nantes, est un réalisateur et directeur artistique français.
