This is the title of a magnificent exhibition at the Musée de Montmartre (12/14 rue Cortot) http://www.museedemontmartre.fr
From Renoir to Truffaut, via Carne and Duvivier … Excerpts from films, posters, paintings, costumes etc …
The museum is located in an old house, and is presented as a delightful journey from room to room.
One room is dedicated to “Amelie”…
Gauvain Sers is a young singer from the Creuse region of France. He wears a cap in beige ribbed velvet. That’s his style. He sings before Renaud and last Saturday at the Bastille, he finished his concert with an unpublished song that paid homage to the famous French singer. It gave me goose bumps! This guy can write.
As he mentions “Amelie” in his song, how could I refuse to make his music video? Aline Bonetto for the set, Thomas Hardmeyer for the lighting, Nathalie Tissier for make-up, a new costume designer, Fabienne Katany, and hairstylist, Cicci. Julien Lecat for the editing and making off, produced by Jerome Denis … and of course Christophe Vassort, my faithful assistant. Alexia Giordano in the role of “Elle” … Jean-Pierre Daroussin and Gérard Darmon as guest stars! A big thanks to them all…
The “Deux escargots” set off for the opening ceremony of the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. Here I am, on the stage with Romain Segaud, co-director and animator, and Julien Lecat, who took care of the editing and recorded the 35 actors. In the photo projected above us is the Clermont-Ferrand jury in 1983, under the leadership of President Henri Alekan, with Marie-Claude Treihou, Ted Benoit, Sophie Taticheff, Florence Giorgetti, a bookseller from Clermont, and yours truly, a few years younger…
Our short film Two Snails Set Off is showing at “Les Fauvettes” cinema, 58 av des Gobelins, Paris, a magnificent cinema renovated by Pathé. It will be shown on all five screens before all films during the school holidays, from 17/12 to 2/1/2017. Yesterday was the premiere, shown before my favourite Marcel Carné film: Port of Shadows. Romain Segaud and I were there…
Then from January 18 to 24, it will be shown at all the sessions of the equally magnificent “Studio 28” in Montmartre, as part of Telerama week…
The writing is finished! It will explore desire and sensuality. “All you ever wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask Woody Allen…”
The exhibition will be held next september at the Museum of Outsider Art in Montmartre (http://www.hallesaintpierre.org).
As an appetizer, two original Caro pieces for Alien Resurrection and 110°C Below Zero, a feature film never filmed.
My short film, which I co-wrote with Roman Segaud, (who single-handedly animated my creatures which were inspired by the artist Jephan de Villiers, who I admire and have been collecting from for a long time (http://Jephan-de-villiers.com), currently on display at the Galerie Grand Rue in Poitiers until the 5th of november) is finally finished. The first screening took place at the Halle Garnier, for the opening of “Lumière 2016”, in front of 4,500 viewers! Julien Lecat, director of all of my “Making ofs” since A Very Long Engagement, recorded the 35 actors and did the editing. Based on the poem Song of Snails Going to a Funeral by Jacques Prévert.
Romain Segaud et Jean-Pierre Jeunet (photo Julien Roche).
I had the pleasure to present Hôtel du Nord and Daybreak at “Lumiere 2016” in Lyon to packed houses. In the meantime, Philippe Morisson, the Marcel Carné expert, has published The Green Tower, a collection of texts written by Carné, “ciné reporter”…
Both with children. A talented young Czech boy for Milka (Wieden Kennedy Amsterdam Agency), and an equally talented girl from Manchester for Ikea. (Mother Londres Agency).
