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Title: Amélie (2001)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Audrey Tautou | ... | Amélie Poulain | |
| Mathieu Kassovitz | ... | Nino Quincampoix | |
| Rufus | ... | Raphaël Poulain | |
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Lorella Cravotta | ... | Amandine Poulain |
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Serge Merlin | ... | Raymond Dufayel |
| Jamel Debbouze | ... | Lucien | |
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Clotilde Mollet | ... | Gina |
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Claire Maurier | ... | Madame Suzanne - la patronne du café |
| Isabelle Nanty | ... | Georgette | |
| Dominique Pinon | ... | Joseph | |
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Artus de Penguern | ... | Hipolito |
| Yolande Moreau | ... | Madeleine Wallace | |
| Urbain Cancelier | ... | Collignon | |
| Maurice Bénichou | ... | Dominique Bretodeau | |
| Michel Robin | ... | Mr. Collignon | |
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 ... Written by spragg_s
'Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain' finds its charm in the little things. The story about Amélie (Audrey Tautou) is a modern day fairy tale and that is exactly how it looks the entire film.
We have a wonderful story about Amélie who decides to help people around her, making them happy. Not by doing great big things or giving money, but by little things. She helps her father by making him believe that his gnome from the garden is on a trip around the world, she helps a lonely neighbor by just visiting him, she helps a stranger by returning something she found in her home. On the way she falls in love with Nino (Mathieu Kassovitz) who's hobby it is to collect photos from automatic photo booths. Photos that were tossed away because people thought they didn't look good enough. He puts all those photos and pieces of photos in a big book. There is a little mystery in the book as well, of course I will not spoil that for you. The story is not only sweet and charming, it has some great moments of comedy as well.
The movie looks colorful and bright almost constantly. Even the sad parts from Amélie's life, her youth for example, look almost strangely happy. In this world, Paris actually, Audrey Tautou is the perfect inhabitant. She has one of those faces that seem to smile the entire time. She looks like she just pulled a joke and she is waiting for you to find out what it is. In a way her character is really doing that here so it does not feel strange.
In short 'Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain' is charming, funny, romantic bright and full of life. This is the perfect lighthearted movie.