--- name: "Marc Caro" canonical: "https://film.one/person/marc-caro" fi1m_id: "marc-caro" imdb_id: "nm0001988" tmdb_id: 13680 wikidata_id: "Q705489" roles: ["Director","Writer"] born: "2 April 1956" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 80 average_as: "director" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-17T17:42:34.289019+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Marc Caro ## Identity Marc Caro - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marc-caro - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** marc-caro - **IMDb ID:** nm0001988 - **TMDB ID:** 13680 - **Wikidata ID:** Q705489 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Caro, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q705489, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001988/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13680 Director and writer. Born 2 April 1956 in Paris, France. ## Details - **Work:** Director, Writer - **Born:** 2 April 1956, Paris, France - **Active:** 1991–1995 - **Frequently works with:** [Dominique Pinon](https://film.one/person/dominique-pinon.md), [Gilles Adrien](https://film.one/person/gilles-adrien.md), [Jean-Claude Dreyfus](https://film.one/person/jean-claude-dreyfus.md), [Jean-Pierre Jeunet](https://film.one/person/jean-pierre-jeunet.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as director, over 2 titles - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Caro, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q705489, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001988/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13680 ## Streaming the US now - **Tubi:** [*Delicatessen*](https://film.one/film/delicatessen.md) (83) - **The Roku Channel:** [*The City of Lost Children*](https://film.one/film/the-city-of-lost-children.md) (78) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Marc Caro > Marc Caro makes imaginary places feel crowded, threatening and lived in. His work with Jean-Pierre Jeunet on *Delicatessen* earns our affection through precise slapstick and unexpected sweetness, though the supporting eccentrics can wear us down. In the butcher’s shop in *Delicatessen* (1991), the crowded surroundings seem to belong to the people who inhabit them. Marc Caro and fellow production designer Miljen ‘Kreka’ Kljaković give us plenty to inspect without making the place safe or welcoming. Darius Khondji’s photography keeps it oppressive and unreal, even while the actors play broadly. This is what we value in Caro: the care taken over a room helps the comedy stay unpleasant. Caro’s work in comics and illustration helps explain that attention to the frame. Before features, he and Jean-Pierre Jeunet made shorts including *Le Bunker de la dernière rafale* (1981), already concerned with confined futuristic spaces. Their first feature, *Delicatessen*, was followed by *The City of Lost Children* (1995). Within the partnership, Caro concentrated on artistic direction and visual elements while Jeunet directed the actors. The distinction matters, since the appeal of *Delicatessen* depends on performances as much as the rooms around them. An ex-clown taking a job above a butcher’s shop gives the directors a sympathetic figure to set against their cannibal society. We felt unexpectedly protective of Louison because Dominique Pinon gives him a sweetness that survives the ghastly premise. The precise physical humour lets us enjoy his company rather than merely inspect another odd face. His romance with the butcher’s daughter provides a reason to care about what happens in a place otherwise rather busy finding new ways to be peculiar. The screenplay, written by Caro, Jeunet and Gilles Adrien, sometimes lets the supporting eccentrics crowd out that romance. Some residents have a peculiarity where a personality should be, and the film keeps making time for them. We would exchange a few of those flourishes for more of Louison and Julie. Caro’s density of detail is a pleasure, but *Delicatessen* also shows how easily it can become a distraction when every figure is asking to be noticed. With *Dante 01* (2008), his first solo feature, Caro returned to enclosed science-fiction spaces, this time in a prison story. His later work has also included illustration, shorts and design. A survey of the features alone therefore gives a limited account of what he does. Start with *Delicatessen* for Pinon, and allow the fussier neighbours a little patience. ## Biography Marc Caro is a French filmmaker, screenwriter and comics artist. He is best known for his collaborations with Jean-Pierre Jeunet, whom he met in 1974 at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Together they directed the short films *L'évasion* (1978) and *Le manège* (1980), and the features *Delicatessen* (1991) and *The City of Lost Children* (1995). Caro worked on production design, storyboards and other aspects of their joint projects. His first solo feature as director was *Dante 01* (2008). Before entering film, Caro worked as an editor and designer at the comics magazine *Métal hurlant* and contributed to other French comics publications. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *The City of Lost Children* (1995), Fi1m 78, as Brother Ange-Joseph — [page](https://film.one/film/the-city-of-lost-children.md) - *Delicatessen* (1991), Fi1m 83, as Fox — [page](https://film.one/film/delicatessen.md) ## Complete filmography (36) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Dans la Lune* (2019), series, Creator - *Looop* (2019), Director, Writer - *Astroboy in Roboland* (2009), Director - *Jean Cocteau and His Tricks* (2008), Writer, Director - *Dante 01* (2008), Director, Screenplay - *Made in Caro* (2006), Director - *Jan Kounen - Intégrale courts métrages* (2005), Actor - *Samàdhi* (2004), Director - *Animag credits* (2003), Director - *Grolandsat* (2001), Director - *AKA Science Music* (1999), Director - *The Last Little Red Riding Hood* (1998), as Le monstre · Art Designer - *Sodomites* (1998), Thanks - *Exercise of Steel* (1998), Writer, Director - *Coloured City* (1998), Director - *Touentiouane* (1997), Director, Writer - *I Am Your Punishment* (1996), as The Garroted Man - *L.S.Dead* (1996), Director - *The City of Lost Children* (1995), as Brother Ange-Joseph · Production Design, Director, Screenplay, Sound Effects — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-city-of-lost-children.md) - *K.O. Kid* (1994), Writer, Director - *Eurotrash* (1993), series, Actor - *Delicatessen* (1991), as Fox · Director, Screenplay, Production Design — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/delicatessen.md) - *Le cirque conférence* (1989), Director - *Le topologue* (1988), Director - *Chronicle of the Revolution* (1988), Director, Writer - *Le Défilé* (1986), Director - *Carlton Dekker* (1986), Actor - *Rude Raid* (1985), Director - *Maitre Cube* (1985), Director - *No Rest for Billy Brakko* (1983), Story - *The Bunker of the Last Gunshots* (1982), Director, Photoscience Manager, Writer, Costume Design, Editor - *The Carousel* (1981), as Modeling - *L'évasion* (1978), Director - *Temps mort autour de Caro & Jeunet*, as Marc Caro - *Les Cyclopodes*, Director - *Etc*, Director ## Awards ### Other awards — 2 won, 1 nominated - Sitges Film Festival Best Director award 1991: Sitges Film Festival Best Director award (won), for *Delicatessen* - Young European Film of the Year 1991: Young European Film of the Year (nominated), for *Delicatessen* - Special Award of the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 1983: Special Award of the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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