Join a Again With Me Amelie?
| Amélie | |
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| Directed by | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| Screenplay past | Guillaume Laurant |
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| Cinematography | Bruno Delbonnel |
| Edited by | Hervé Schneid |
| Music by | Yann Tiersen |
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| Running time | 123 minutes[1] |
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| Language | French |
| Budget | $10 1000000[4] |
| Box office | $174.2 million[4] |
Amélie (too known equally Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain ; French pronunciation: [lə fabylø destɛ̃ d‿ameli pulɛ̃]; English: The Fabled Destiny of Amélie Poulain ) is a 2001 French-language romantic one-act film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the flick is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, prepare in Montmartre. It tells the story of a shy waitress, played by Audrey Tautou, who decides to change the lives of those effectually her for the amend while dealing with her own isolation. The film besides features an ensemble bandage of supporting roles, including Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta, Serge Merlin, Jamel Debbouze, Claire Maurier, Clotilde Mollet, Isabelle Nanty, Dominique Pinon, Artus de Penguern, Yolande Moreau, Urbain Cancelier, and Maurice Bénichou.
The motion picture was theatrically released in France on 25 April 2001 past UGC-Fox Distribution and in Germany on xvi Baronial 2001 by Prokino Filmverleih. The film received critical acclaim, with praise for Tautou'due south performance, the cinematography, production design, and writing. Amélie won Best Film at the European Film Awards; it as well won iv César Awards, including Best Moving-picture show and Best Director. It won two British Academy Film Awards, including Best Original Screenplay, and was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Strange Language Picture and Best Original Screenplay. The motion-picture show was a commercial success, grossing $174.ii one thousand thousand worldwide against a budget of $10 million, and is one of the biggest international successes for a French flick.
Plot [edit]
Amélie Poulain is born in June 1974 and brought up past eccentric parents who – incorrectly believing that she has a centre defect – determine to home-school her. To cope with her loneliness, Amélie develops an active imagination and a mischievous personality. When Amélie is six, her mother, Amandine, is killed when a suicidal Canadian tourist jumps from the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris and lands on her. As a upshot, her father Raphaël withdraws more and more from society. Amélie leaves home at the age of eighteen and becomes a waitress at the Café des 2 Moulins in Montmartre, which is staffed and frequented by a collection of eccentrics. She is single and lets her imagination roam freely, finding contentment in simple pleasures like dipping her paw into grain sacks, groovy crème brûlée with a spoon, and skipping stones along the Canal Saint-Martin.[5]
On 31 August 1997, startled past the news of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, Amélie drops a plastic perfume-stopper, which dislodges a wall tile and accidentally reveals an old metallic box of childhood memorabilia subconscious by a boy who lived in her apartment decades earlier. Amélie resolves to track down the boy and return the box to him. She promises herself that if it makes him happy, she will devote her life to bringing happiness to others.
Later on request the apartment's concierge and several old tenants well-nigh the male child's identity, Amélie meets her reclusive neighbor, Raymond Dufayel, an artist with breakable os disease who repaints Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party every year. He recalls the boy's proper name equally "Bretodeau". Amélie quickly finds the man, Dominique Bretodeau, and surreptitiously gives him the box. Moved to tears by the discovery and the memories information technology holds, Bretodeau resolves to reconcile with his estranged daughter and the grandson he has never met. Amélie happily embarks on her new mission.
Amélie secretly executes complex schemes that positively affect the lives of those around her. She escorts a bullheaded man to the Métro station, giving him a rich description of the street scenes he passes. She persuades her father to follow his dream of touring the world by stealing his garden gnome and having a flight attendant friend airmail pictures of it posing with landmarks from all over the world. She starts a romance between her hypochondriacal co-worker Georgette and Joseph, one of the customers in the bar. She convinces Madeleine Wallace, the concierge of her block of flats, that the married man who abandoned her had sent her a final conciliatory dear letter just before his accidental decease years before. She plays practical jokes on Collignon, the nasty greengrocer. Mentally wearied, Collignon no longer abuses his meek but good-natured assistant Lucien. A delighted Lucien takes charge at the grocery stand up.
Mr. Dufayel, having observed Amélie, begins a conversation with her near his painting. Although he has copied the same painting 20 times, he has never quite captured the wait of the daughter drinking a glass of water. They talk over the meaning of this character, and over several conversations, Amélie begins projecting her loneliness onto the image. Dufayel recognizes this and uses the girl in the painting to push Amélie to examine her allure to a quirky fellow, Nino Quincampoix, who collects the discarded photographs of strangers from passport photograph booths. When Amélie bumps into Nino a 2d time, she realizes she is falling in honey with him. He accidentally drops a photo album in the street. Amélie retrieves information technology.
Amélie plays a cat-and-mouse game with Nino around Paris earlier returning his treasured anthology anonymously. Later on arranging a meeting at the 2 Moulins, Amélie panics and tries to deny her identity. Her co-worker, Gina, concerned for Amélie's well-being, screens Nino for her; Joseph's comment virtually this misleads Amélie to believe she has lost Nino to Gina. Information technology takes Dufayel's insight to give her the courage to pursue Nino, resulting in a romantic night together and the beginning of a relationship. The film ends as Amélie experiences a moment of happiness she has found for herself.
Cast [edit]
- Audrey Tautou as Amélie Poulain
- Flora Guiet as young Amélie
- Mathieu Kassovitz equally Nino Quincampoix
- Amaury Babault as immature Nino
- André Dussollier every bit The Narrator
- Rufus as Raphaël Poulain, Amélie'southward begetter
- Serge Merlin every bit Raymond Dufayel, "The Glass Man"
- Lorella Cravotta every bit Amandine Poulain, Amélie'southward mother
- Clotilde Mollet every bit Gina, a fellow waitress
- Claire Maurier equally Suzanne, the possessor of Café des Deux Moulins
- Isabelle Nanty as Georgette, the resident hypochondriac
- Dominique Pinon equally Joseph
- Artus de Penguern as Hipolito, the writer
- Yolande Moreau as Madeleine Wallace (Wells, in English subtitled version)
- Urbain Cancelier equally Collignon, the grocer
- Jamel Debbouze as Lucien, the grocer's assistant
- Maurice Bénichou equally Dominique Bretodeau
- Kevin Fernandes as young Dominique
- Michel Robin every bit Mr. Collignon
- Andrée Damant as Mrs. Collignon
- Claude Perron as Eva, Nino's colleague
- Armelle every bit Philomène, air hostess
- Ticky Holgado every bit Man in a photo
- Fabienne Chaudat as The woman in a coma
Production [edit]
Au Marché de la Butte, Rue des Trois Frères, Paris, used as the location of Monsieur Collignon'southward shop
In his DVD commentary, Jeunet explains that he originally wrote the role of Amélie for the English actress Emily Watson. In that first typhoon, Amélie's father was an Englishman living in London. However, Watson'southward French was not strong, and when she became unavailable to shoot the motion-picture show, owing to a conflict with the filming of Gosford Park, Jeunet rewrote the screenplay for a French actress. Audrey Tautou was the first actress he auditioned having seen her on the poster for the 1999 moving picture Venus Beauty Found.
Filming took identify from March ii to July 7, 2000 mainly in Paris. The Café des two Moulins (15 Rue Lepic, Montmartre, Paris) where Amélie works is a real identify.[6]
The filmmakers made utilise of reckoner-generated imagery (including computer animation),[7] [8] and a digital intermediate.[9] The studio scenes were filmed in the MMC Studios Coloneum in Cologne (Federal republic of germany). The film shares many of the themes in its plot with the second one-half of the 1994 film Chungking Express.[10] [xi]
Release [edit]
The moving picture was released in French republic, Kingdom of belgium, and French-speaking western Switzerland in April 2001, with subsequent screenings at various picture festivals followed by releases around the earth. It received express releases in North America, the U.k., and Australasia later in 2001.
Cannes Film Festival selector Gilles Jacob described Amélie as "uninteresting", and therefore information technology was not screened at the festival, although the version he viewed was an early on cutting without music. The absenteeism of Amélie at the festival acquired something of a controversy considering of the warm welcome by the French media and audience in contrast with the reaction of the selector.[12] David Martin-Jones, in an article in Senses of Movie house, stated that the film "[wears] its national [French] identity on its sleeve" and that this attracted both audiences of mainstream movies and those of arthouse ones.[13]
Reception [edit]
Critical response [edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes, the pic has an 89% approval rating based on 186 reviews, with an average rating of viii.x/10. The website'southward critical consensus reads, "The experience-good Amélie is a lively, fanciful charmer, showcasing Audrey Tautou as its delightful heroine."[14] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 69 out of 100 based on 31 critics, indicating "more often than not favorable reviews".[15]
Alan Morrison from Empire Online gave Amélie five stars and called it "ane of the year'southward all-time, with crossover potential along the lines of Cyrano de Bergerac and Il Postino. Given its quirky heart, it might well surpass them all".[16] Paul Tatara of CNN praised Amélie 's playful nature. In his review, he wrote, "Its whimsical, complimentary-ranging nature is often enchanting; the first hour, in particular, is brimming with amiable, sardonic laughs".[17]
The picture show was attacked by critic Serge Kaganski of Les Inrockuptibles for an unrealistic and picturesque vision of a foretime French gild with few ethnic minorities.[18] Jeunet dismissed the criticism past pointing out that the photograph collection contains pictures of people from numerous ethnic backgrounds, and that Jamel Debbouze, who plays Lucien, is of Moroccan descent.[ citation needed ]
Box office [edit]
The movie opened on 432 screens in France and grossed 43.two one thousand thousand French Franc ($6.2 meg) in its opening calendar week, placing information technology at number one.[nineteen] It stayed in the top 10 for 22 weeks.[20] It was the highest-grossing film in French republic for the year with a gross of $41 million.[21]
Accolades [edit]
The film was selected past The New York Times equally one of "The All-time one,000 Movies Ever Made".[24] The film placed No. two in Empire mag'southward "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema".[25] Paste magazine ranked information technology 2d on its list of the fifty Best Movies of the Decade (2000–2009).[26] In August 2016, BBC Magazine conducted a poll on the 21st century's 100 greatest films so far, with Amélie ranking at number 87.[27]
Entertainment Weekly named the motion picture affiche ane of the all-time on its list of the top 25 film posters in the by 25 years.[28] It likewise named Amélie setting upwardly a wild goose hunt for her beloved Nino all through Paris every bit No. 9 on its list of elevation 25 Romantic Gestures.[29] In 2010, an online public poll by the American Cinematographer – the business firm periodical of the American Social club of Cinematographers – named Amélie the best shot motion-picture show of the decade.[30]
Amelie is rated 37 amidst the 50 Greatest Romantic Comedies of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine.[31]
Soundtrack [edit]
The soundtrack to Amélie was composed by Yann Tiersen.[32]
Musical adaptation [edit]
On 23 August 2013, composer Dan Messe, one of the founders and members of the band Hem, confirmed speculation that he would exist writing the score for a musical adaptation of Amélie, collaborating with Craig Lucas and Nathan Tysen.[33] [34] Messe also confirmed he would be composing all original music for the show and not using the Yann Tiersen score.[35] The musical adaptation premiered at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in August 2015.[36] It opened on Broadway in March 2017 and closed in May 2017.[37] The product started its pre-Broadway engagement at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in December 2016, with Phillipa Soo in the championship office.[38] A London production opened in 2020, with Australian, High german, Dutch, and Finnish productions set to open or resume pending the abeyance of restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jeunet has distanced himself from the musical due to his distaste for the artform, saying he simply sold the rights to raise funds for children'due south clemency "Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque".[39]
Home media [edit]
The pic has no overall worldwide distributor, only Blu-ray Discs accept been released in Canada and Australia. The starting time release occurred in Canada in September 2008 by TVA Films. This version did not contain any English language subtitles and received criticisms regarding flick quality.[xl] In November 2009, an Australian release occurred. This time the version contained English subtitles and features no region coding.[41] Momentum Pictures released a Blu-ray in the UK on 17 Oct 2011. The film is also available in HD on iTunes and other digital download services.
Interpretation [edit]
Film interpretation commonly revolves around the color palette existence red and dark-green heavy.[42]
Legacy [edit]
For the 2007 telly bear witness Pushing Daisies, a "quirky fairy tale", American Broadcasting Company (ABC) sought an Amélie feel, with the same chords of "whimsy and spirit and magic". Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller said Amélie is his favorite motion picture. "All the things I love are represented in that movie", he said. "It's a movie that will make me weep based on kindness as opposed to sadness". The New York Times ' review of Pushing Daisies reported "the Amélie influence on Pushing Daisies is everywhere".[43]
A species of frog was named Cochranella amelie. The scientist who named information technology said: "This new species of glass frog is for Amélie, protagonist of the extraordinary picture Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain; a film where piddling details play an important role in the achievement of joie de vivre; similar the important role that drinking glass frogs and all amphibians and reptiles play in the health of our planet".[44] The species was described in the scientific journal Zootaxa in an commodity entitled "An enigmatic new species of Glassfrog (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae) from the Amazonian Andean slopes of Ecuador".[44]
Come across besides [edit]
- Cinema of France
- List of French linguistic communication films
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