Jean-Pierre Jeunet can be a master juggler of a filmmaker, letting many different pieces achieve weightlessness while our attention is rapt. When it’s graceful and methodical, it can have the dreamy qualities of “Delicatessen” or “Amelie.” But when the trick doesn’t work, it can be mighty exhausting to follow along with, as with his new Netflix film “Bigbug.” This movie has Jeunet doing “The Jetsons” while ruminating on what a robot uprising might inevitably look like, but that proves to be less exciting than one could ever imagine. 

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It’s been six years since Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who gave us the one-two punch of “Alien Resurrection” and “Amélie” has directed a narrative feature film, but we may get a new film from him and “Amélie” writer Guillaume Laurant. The duo is reportedly getting back together to helm the sci-fi film “Big Bug” for Netflix.

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CANNES – Imagine you wake up, but something is missing. In fact, a lot is missing. You are, simply, your hand.  That is, in effect, the first scene of Jérémy Clapin’s animated marvel “I Lost My Body,” which debuted at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival less than 10 days ago. As a sentient “hand,” you are compelled to find your arm and it’s going to be a perilous journey getting there.

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