Amélie (2001)

Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.

Director:

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Writers:

Guillaume Laurant (scenario), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (scenario)

Stars:

Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus

Top Rated Movies #77 | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 56 wins & 61 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Audrey Tautou	...	Amélie Poulain
Mathieu Kassovitz	...	Nino Quincampoix
Rufus	...	Raphaël Poulain
Lorella Cravotta	...	Amandine Poulain
Serge Merlin	...	Raymond Dufayel
Jamel Debbouze	...	Lucien
Clotilde Mollet	...	Gina
Claire Maurier	...	Madame Suzanne - la patronne du café
Isabelle Nanty	...	Georgette
Dominique Pinon	...	Joseph
Artus de Penguern	...	Hipolito
Yolande Moreau	...	Madeleine Wallace
Urbain Cancelier	...	Collignon
Maurice Bénichou	...	Dominique Bretodeau
Michel Robin	...	Mr. Collignon

Storyline

Amélie is a story about a girl named Amélie whose childhood was suppressed by her Father's mistaken concerns of a heart defect. With these concerns Amélie gets hardly any real life contact with other people. This leads Amélie to resort to her own fantastical world and dreams of love and beauty. She later on becomes a young woman and moves to the central part of Paris as a waitress. After finding a lost treasure belonging to the former occupant of her apartment, she decides to return it to him. After seeing his reaction and his new found perspective - she decides to devote her life to the people around her. Such as, her father who is obsessed with his garden-gnome, a failed writer, a hypochondriac, a man who stalks his ex girlfriends, the "ghost", a suppressed young soul, the love of her life and a man whose bones are as brittle as glass. But after consuming herself with these escapades - she finds out that she is disregarding her own life and damaging her quest for love. Amélie then ...

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Plot Keywords:

female protagonist | waitress | garden gnome | lingerie slip | magical realism | 

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Taglines:

She'll change your life.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sexual content

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

France Germany

Language:

French Russian

Release Date:

8 February 2002 (USA)

Also Known As:

Amélie

Filming Locations:

France

Box Office

Budget:

FRF 77,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$496,031 (France) (10 August 2001)

Gross:

$33,201,661 (USA) (28 June 2002)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Claudie Ossard Productions, Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC), Victoires Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

122 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital

Color:

Black and White Color (Duboicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

At the opening scene, where the crew is being displayed on screen, young Amélie is representing the job of each crew member listed with origami.

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Goofs

When Amelie is in the bathroom and she watches the news on Princess Diana's death, she has a perfume bottle in her hand, she throws the lid of the bottle (she is IN the bathroom), after the lids crashes into the wall in the next shot Amelie is OUT of the bathroom, she looks the floor searching for the lid and gets back into the bathroom.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Narrator: On September 3rd 1973, at 6:28pm and 32 seconds, a bluebottle fly capable of 14,670 wing beats a minute landed on Rue St Vincent, Montmartre. At the same moment, on a restaurant terrace nearby, the wind magically made two glasses dance unseen on a tablecloth. Meanwhile, in a 5th-floor flat, 28 Avenue Trudaine, Paris 9, returning from his best friend's funeral, Eugène Colère erased his name from his address book. At the same moment, a sperm with one X chromosome, belonging to ...

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Crazy Credits

In the opening credits, the girl playing Amélie as a child is shown doing various things. If you give a careful look at these activities, you'll find they illustrate the credits shown at the same time.

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Connections

References Si tu tends l'oreille (1995)

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Soundtracks

Got a Date with an Angel
Written by Clifford Grey, Sonny Miller, Joseph Tunbridge and Jack Waller

User Reviews

This is rated so highly cause it deserves it

A slice of heaven right here on earth, "Amelie" is a joy to behold, and has some of the most gorgeous cinematography I've ever seen in a movie.

Audrey Tatou is perfection as the title character. A combination of Audrey Hepburn, Dolly Levi and Roger Rabbit, she involves herself in the world surrounding her as a means of really enjoying living. There are moments when she finds complete and total joy just walking down the street.

Some of it is hilarious, too..like when her pet goldfish habitually tries to commit suicide, or when she is on the telephone with the man at the porno shop, or when a character is asked "Are you a congenital shmuck"?

But for the most part, its a human comedy, about love, of course.

Just beautiful. 10/10.