I’m glad Aimee still gets the Sunday Globe. The daily ones piled up, but the Sunday edition gets read all the way through,and usually has some good tidbits to offer – where else would you see the word “impactful” used in a sentence? OK, so that’s not a selling point.

I was happy to see a high-profile interview with Jean-Pierre Jeunet in this Sunday’s Movies section, though most of the quotes from Jeunet seemed to come from the discussion at the MFA from last month. Having been present at the discussion, I was well aware that Jeunet was talking about his filmmaking partner Marc Caro when he answered a question about detail and spectacle in his films. He described the fact that he and Caro were both from working-class backgrounds, and in exchange for the purchase of what might be an expensive movie ticket, they wanted to give the most value to their moviegoers by cramming lots of visual excitement into their films. Unfortunately, the Globe reporter seems to have mis-heard “Marc Caro” as “Marcel Carn?,” the great French director of Les Enfants du paradis and Quai des brumes. I’m sure Carn? probably wouldn’t disagree with the sentiment, but Jeunet’s story doesn’t make much sense as it stands in the paper. Add to that the fact that online, all of the the uses of “?” in the print article are lost, so “Carn?” now comes out “Carn,” and Jeunet is asked if he is “stress” about the film, which doesn’t make much sense. Whatever the rationale behind whatever he does, the film is worth seeing, and I’m sure my quibbles will not be negatively impactful on the turnout for the film.