Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Micmacs

As one of cinema’s most individual stylists, Jean-Pierre Jeunet is inevitably grouped with such other iconoclastic filmmakers as Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam. But this French writer-director has an entirely unique vision, one that has resulted in movies as diverse as Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, A Very Long Engagement and, of course, his global box office charmer, Amélie. Jeunet’s latest offering is Micmacs, a daffy caper comedy that, while condemning arms-dealing and war, details a romantic tale about a varied group that Jeunet has compared to the Seven Dwarfs (25 minutes).

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