Marc Caro

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Marc Caro, born April 2, 1956, is a French filmmaker and cartoonist, best known for his co-directing projects with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The two of them met at an animation festival in Annecy in 1974. Together, Jeunet and Caro directed award-winning animations. Their first live action film was The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (1981), a short film about soldiers in a bleak futuristic world. Jeunet and Caro's first feature film was Delicatessen (1991), a melancholy comedy set in a famine-plagued post-apocalyptic world, in which an apartment building above a delicatessen is ruled by a butcher who kills people in order to feed his tenants. They next made The City of Lost Children (1995), a dark, multi-layered fantasy film about a mad scientist who steals children's dreams so that he can live indefinitely. The success of The City of Lost Children led to an invitation to direct the fourth film in the Alien series, Alien: Resurrection (1997). This is where Jeunet and Caro ended up going their separate ways as Jeunet believed this to be an amazing opportunity and Caro was not interested in a film that lacked creative control working on a big-budg…

Directed

1. Delicatessen (1991) — Director
2. The City of Lost Children (1995) — Director
3. Dante 01 (2008) — Director
4. The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (1982) — Director
5. Exercise of Steel (1998) — Director
6. KO Kid (1994) — Director
7. Le topologue (1988) — Director
8. L'évasion (1978) — Director
9. Le Défilé (1986) — Director
10. Rude Raid (1985) — Director
11. Le cirque conférence (1989) — Director
12. Made in Caro (2006) — Director
13. Coloured City (1998) — Director
14. Etc — Director
15. Les Cyclopodes — Director
16. Jean Cocteau and His Tricks (2008) — Director
17. Astroboy in Roboland (2009) — Director
18. Maitre Cube (1985) — Director
19. Samadhi (2005) — Director
20. Touentiouane (1997) — Director
21. Chronicle of the Revolution (1988) — Director
22. AKA Science: Music (1999) — Director
23. L.S.Dead (1996) — Director
24. Animag — Director
25. Looop (2019) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Delicatessen (1991) — Fox
2. The City of Lost Children (1995) — Brother Ange-Joseph
3. The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (1982)
4. The Last Little Red Riding Hood (1998) — Le monstre
5. Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist (2021) — Self
6. Eurotrash (1993)
7. No Rest for Billy Brakko (1983)
8. I Am Your Punishment (1996) — The Garroted Man
9. Chauves, la revanche (2023) — Self
10. Temps mort autour de Caro & Jeunet — Marc Caro
11. Carlton Dekker (1986)
12. Jan Kounen - Intégrale courts métrages (2005)