The TV Addict 

This column seems to be turning into a “Hey, let’s check out IMDB to see whatever the heck happened to so-and-so director?” what with installments on Kenneth Lonergan and Kathryn Bigelow resulting from such aimless internet browsing (well, not so aimless as it turns out). Well, if ain’t broke…

MICMACS Á TIRE-LARIGOT is the film Jean-Pierre Jeunet has just started production on. Most of you will know the man as the writer-director of the delightfully enchanting and genuinely romantic AMELIE. Those of you with slightly more movie buff cred will also know him from the hilariously dark, dirty and sort of post-apocalyptic DELICATESSEN, the visually stunning and fairy tale like THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN, and the somewhat failed anti-war romance, A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT.

Those of you with less movie buff cred will know him from ALIEN RESSURECTION.

Now beyond IMDB telling me that MICMACS Á TIRE-LARIGOT is a “satiric comedy set in the world of illegal gun trade,” and my suspicions that it sounds suspiciously like LORD OF WAR, I know nothing about this project. Heck, I don’t even know what the title means (anybody care to translate?). Jeunet has a pretty excellent batting average though, and his films are always sumptuous feats of visual splendor, so that’s good enough for me to eagerly anticipate this one.

Even if it doesn’t have Audrey Tautou in it. Swoon… Audrey Tautou.