To be fair to French studios, the director's track record has been mixed, with 2004's "A Very Long Engagement" and 2013's "The Young and Prodigious T.S. In order to win concessions, it has poured money into the French film industry - a boon for riskier propositions like Jeunet. The streaming platform has faced some of its biggest obstacles in France, a country with strict rules about how long films must wait between a cinema release and home-viewing. "They said yes to the project in 24 hours," Jeunet said. Netflix, however, called at just the right time. "I heard the same words, the same phrases as I did for 'Delicatessen' (his 1991 debut) and 'Amelie': it's too weird, too detached and therefore too risky." I came close to a full-blown depression," Jeunet told AFP.
"Almost no one wanted my new film in France. Jeunet was similarly strained to find studio support for his movie, "BigBug", a dystopian comedy set during a war between humans and robots that premiers on Netflix on Friday. The US streaming giant has found great success in poaching directors who increasingly struggle to get funding elsewhere, including Martin Scorsese ("The Irishman"), Alfonso Cuaron ("Roma") and Jane Campion ("The Power of the Dog").
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