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The story of Amelie, a naive girl living and working in Paris. Amelie has craved love all her life, at the age of eight, her mother was the victim of a freak accident and her father was unable to give the attention she deserved. One day Amelie realises that the way to true happiness is to improve the lives of those around her... French dialogue with subtitles.Product Identifiers
ProducerClaudie Ossard
EAN5060021175281
eBay Product ID (ePID)3952199
Product Key Features
ActorAudrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Dominique Pinon, Yolande Moreau, Michel Robin
Film/TV TitleAmelie
DirectorJean-Pierre Jeunet
LanguageFrench
Subtitle LanguageEnglish
Run Time116 Mins
Release Year2002
FormatDVD
FeaturesAudio Commentary-1. Jean-Pierre Jeunet-Director, With Subtitles
GenreComedy, Romantic
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureFrance
ComposerYann Tiersen
AwardsBest Screenplay (Original) 2001 - Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Best Screenplay (Original) 2001 - Guillaume Laurant
Additional InformationAmelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) is a young woman who glides through the streets of Paris as quietly as a mouse. With wide eyes and a tiny grin, she sees the world in a magical light, discovering minor miracles every day. A shy and reserved person whose favorite moments are spent alone skimming stones into the water, Amelie was raised by a pair of eccentrics who falsely diagnosed her with a heart problem at the age of six and so limited her exposure to the outside world. Now a free and independent woman, Amelie wears a bob that curls in every direction and dresses in red. With a job in a cafe and an aptitude for spying on her neighbors, Amelie entertains herself by enacting a series of homemade, kindhearted practical jokes. She returns a long-forgotten box of childhood knickknacks to its proper owner, she sends her father's garden troll on a trip around the world, and she creates a love connection at the cafe between the hypochondriac druggist and a beer-drinking grouch. But when the day is done, Amelie finds one stone unturned, and decides to work her magic on the quirky object of her affections, Nino Quincampoix (Matthieu Kassovitz), whom she has never met.<BR>Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (who codirected DELICATESSEN and THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN with Marc Caro) presents AMELIE, an aesthetically gorgeous and inventive film. The rich, glowing color scheme is offset by flashbacks in black and white archival footage that give short biographies of each character. A soft-spoken narrator guides viewers through this enlightening fairy tale, which sometimes speeds through the streets and other times drifts in slow motion. AMELIE is humorous, questioning, and strange, and it will change the lives of all who watch it, if only for a short while after leaving Amelie's world.
ReviewsUSA Today - ...Charming....Bound to capture American hearts and imaginations with its whimsical fable of random acts of kindness..., New York Times - ...Mr. Jeunet's sense of humor gives the movie heart; his real affection for the medium can be seen in all the funny little curlicues and jottings around the action..., Entertainment Weekly - ...While Amelie the plucky girl beguiles, AMELIE the charming movie, already an international success, seduces..., Sight and Sound - ...Amelie's got girl-power by the bucket-load...
ScreenwriterGuillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Costume DesignerMadeline Fontaine
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1
Movie/TV TitleAmelie
NarratorAndre Dussollier
Director of PhotographyBruno Delbonnel