![]() ![]() until Marion Cotillard swept through in a few Christopher Nolan movies.Īmélie is a movie about big dreams but with a small production budget of only $10 million (American). Tautou, meanwhile, would go on to play Coco Chanel in Coco Before Chanel (2009) and Jesus's descendant or something (um, decade-old spoiler alert) in The Da Vinci Code (2006), making her the most famous French actress in the U.S. Whatever the reason, he did a complete 180 with Amélie, where he transitioned into a world of whimsy and romance, one that he would continue to explore with Audrey Tautou in A Very Long Engagement (2004). Perhaps Alien: Resurrection was so dark (or so bad?) that Jeunet decided he had had enough with the dark side. Jeunet's early work is actually pretty dark we're talking about Delicatessen (1991), a movie about a cannibalistic butcher, and City of Lost Children (1995), a movie about a mad scientist stealing dreams. Jeunet had actually done an English-language film previously, the critically panned Alien: Resurrection (1997). This is the film that put director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and star Audrey Tautou on the map in the U.S. Then she must overcome her own shyness and her own reluctance to achieve happiness of her own. theaters in November 2001, is about a young woman named Amélie Poulain, who, after discovering a lost box, decides to do good deeds for others-until she realizes she's been neglecting herself in the process. A pretty big title for a movie about one small French girl.Īmélie, which was subtitled in English just in time to hit U.S. That's The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain, for all you non-Francophiles out there. Amélie doesn't like when people are mean to one another, and she doesn't like it when people are not living up to their full potential.Īmélie is also the main character in the movie Amélie, or as the French call it, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain. ![]() Amélie is a waitress in a café in Montmartre who likes skipping stones, playing matchmaker, and searching the souls of people. These are the types of silly games Amélie likes to play when she's by herself. ![]() How many people are on Shmoop right now? Probably the same number, give or take a few hundred.Īnd how many people are falling in love right now? If it were up to Amélie, it would be all of them. How many people are on their cell phones right now? Probably about 3 billion. How many people are watching movies right now? We'd guess about 1.2 billion. On 28 September 1997, Amélie Poulain finds love.Stars: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus When Amélie finds the album of photos of an intriguing collector that collects rejected photos in the Photomaton of the Gare de l'Est, she seeks him out and falls in love with him. She convinces her father to travel abroad using his garden gnome she helps her neighbor that is an outcast and lonely painter and the super that misses her unfaithful husband she also helps her hypochondriac colleague that works in the tobacco shop and the man that stalks the other waitress acting like cupid she plays pranks to an employer that mistreats his employee with abusive relationship. He seeks out the man and when she witnesses his happiness, she decides to become the "godmother of the rejected", anonymously helping people that are her acquaintances using her fantasy and little tricks. On 30 August 1997, Amélie finds a child treasure hidden behind the wall that belonged to a dweller from the 50's, and she decides to anonymously return it to the owner. Her mother dies in a weird accident and when the shy and daydreamer Amélie Poulain becomes a young woman, she moves to central Paris and works as waitress in the café Deux Moulins in Montmartre. In 1974, in Enghien in the northern suburbs of Paris, the girl Amélie Poulain was born and raised alone by her cold hearted father and her stressed mother due to a mistake of her father's evaluation of her heart conditions. ![]()
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