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Marc Caro (born 2 April 1956) is a French people filmmaker and comics artist, best known for his projects with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
In 1991 they directed their first feature film, a dark comedy Delicatessen The New York Times which launched their careers: the film won the Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival and Tokyo Gold Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 1991, César Awards for Best Debut and Best Writing at the 17th César Awards (1992) and the Best Director award at the Sitges Film Festival (1993). Delicatessen Awards at IMDb List of TIFF Awards at the Tokyo International Film Festival website As Caro described their working process,
"Jean-Pierre handles direction in the traditional sense of the word, that is, the direction of the actors, etc., while I do the artistic direction. Beyond that, in the day-to-day workings of the shoot of preproduction, it's obviously much more of a mixture. We write together, film together, edit together. According to each of our specialties, sometimes we'll be drawn to what we do best. There's a real complicity between us.
The success of Delicatessen allowed them to return to their early project — a science fantasy film, The City of Lost Children, which they conceived in the early 1980s, but were not able to produce due to the lack of funding. It was released in 1995 and entered the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. La cité des enfants perdus at the Cannes Film Festival website The friends were then suggested to direct the fourth Alien installment, Alien Resurrection, and while Jeunet agreed, Caro refused to work on a film over which he lacked creative control, although he was persuaded to spend three weeks in Hollywood working on costume and set design. This movie marked the end of their creative partnership.
In 2011 he became one of the initiators of the joined French- 3D animated movie Windwalkers: Chronicle of the 34th Horde working as an art director and visual effects supervisor, with Kounen attached as a director. The movie was based on the top-selling French novel La Horde du Contrevent by Alain Damasio and received a budget of €18 million ($23.4 million), but after American distributors requested to "marvelise" the script which they found "indigestible and too complicated", Caro and Kounen left the project which was eventually frozen in 2015.John Hopewell, Elsa Keslassy. Digital Frontier, Shibuya team on ‘Windwalkers’ article at Variety, 16 May 2012Mathias Averty. Windwalkers: The crazy story of la Horde du Contrevent adaptation article at Premiere, 4 March 2015 (in French)
Solo career
During the next 10 years Caro contributed to various projects as an art director, character designer and actor, often collaborating with Jan Kounen on his films. In 2008 he released Dante 01, his first feature film as a solo director which went almost unnoticed. The New York Times Dante 01 at Box Office Mojo In 2009 he directed a 53-minute documentary Astroboy à Roboland based on the Astro Boy franchise. He returned to directing only in 2018 with a 5-minute short Loop.
Filmography
1978 L'évasion 1981 The Bunker of the Last Gunshots 1984 Pas de repos pour Billy Brakko 1991 Delicatessen 1995 The City of Lost Children 1997 2008 Dante 01
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