Jean-Pierre Jeunet - The craftsman

With every passing movie... I am getting BIG fan of Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He is hooked on to Audrey Tautou, the fabulous actress in and as 'Emelie', the Jean pierre movie that most people know about. she never lets him down with her tender performances.
Yesterday watched mesmerizingly beautiful 'Un long dimanche de fiançailles' (French) - "A Very Long Engagement" is a touching tale of a girl's idiosyncratic belief that one day she would break the mystery of her fiance disappearance from war front who was sentenced for court marshal along with other five. she has these crazy habits of relating things around him to find the answers to her depeest questions and more often she gets it as some kind of validations of her beilief.
Her journey and story is a cinematic treat to get involved in and Jean-Pierre weaves yet another classic with his characteristic thumb-print seen all over.
His style render every frame with rich compositions and vividness of the French landscape. At times subtitles are a distractions and viewer is torn between this ugly trade-off and we pity ourselves for not having learnt French, the language with its peculiar phoneme and free flowing movements like tai-chi.

Coupla days back watched "Delicatessen", also by Jean Pierre, a romantic love story on the backdrop of weired world only a most creative mind can visualize. It has its moments that still bring smile on my face. A must watch, at least for the scene wherein the joker comes in for a cupa tea at her loved ones invitation.