Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Warm browns and greens, wide lenses and eccentric faces fill the worlds Jeunet builds. Delicatessen, co-directed with Marc Caro, is set in a post-apocalyptic apartment block where food is currency and the butcher downstairs is the landlord. Amélie follows a shy waitress in a Paris café who secretly arranges happiness for strangers. In A Very Long Engagement, Mathilde searches for the truth about her fiancé, one of five soldiers court-martialled at the Somme.

Signature

• Dominique Pinon and a stock company of odd faces.
• Grotesque humour in dark settings (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children).
• Whimsy and matchmaking (Amélie).