#The Quirky New Film From The Director Of Amélie Comes To Netflix

“BigBug” arrives on the heels of the Big Brother subgenre of family-friendly films “Ron’s Gone Wrong” and “The Mitchells vs. The Machines.” Jeunet’s business is more bizarre than that; from the teaser, the movie looks like an extended “Twilight Zone” episode in all the best ways. The midcentury pastels in a dystopian suburb are a different but welcome aesthetic from a filmmaker known for his distinctive visual style. 

Jeunet is unafraid to depart from the norm, having challenged himself with an English-language film that also happened to be his first foray into 3D filmmaking, “The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet,” based on Reif Larsen’s 2009 novel “The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet.” His directorial debut was in 1991 with the pitch-black comedy “Delicatessen,” in which a butcher-landlord feeds his tenants with something sinister. “Delicatessen” had the director collaborating with Marc Caro, who he’d team up with again to create “The City of Lost Children” four years later. Jeunet then signed on to direct the fourth entry in the “Alien” film series in 1997 with “Alien Resurrection” before receiving international praise for “Amélie,” for which he was nominated for two Oscars — Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay.

“BigBug” arrives exclusively on Netflix on February 11, 2022.