A delighted Lucien takes charge at the grocery stand. Mentally exhausted, Collignon no longer abuses his meek but good-natured assistant Lucien ( Jamel Debbouze). She uses gaslighting tactics on Collignon ( Urbain Cancelier), the nasty greengrocer. She convinces Madeleine Wells ( Yolande Moreau), who lives on her block of flats, that the husband who abandoned her had sent her a final conciliatory love letter just before his accidental death years before. She starts a romance between her hypochondriacal co-worker Georgette ( Isabelle Nanty) and Joseph ( Dominique Pinon), one of the customers in the bar. 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 escorts a blind man to the Métro station, giving him a rich description of the street scenes he passes. Amélie happily embarks on her new mission.Īmélie secretly executes complex schemes that affect the lives of those around her. Moved to tears by the discovery and the memories it holds, Bretodeau resolves to reconcile with his estranged daughter and the grandson he has never met. Amélie quickly finds the man, Dominique Bretodeau ( Maurice Bénichou), and surreptitiously gives him the box. He correctly recalls the boy's name as "Bretodeau".
She promises herself that if it makes him happy, she will devote her life to bringing happiness to others.Īfter inquiring the apartment's concierge and several old tenants about the boy's identity, Amélie meets her reclusive neighbour, Raymond Dufayel ( Serge Merlin), an artist with brittle bone disease who repaints Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir every year. Amélie resolves to track down the boy and return the box to him. On 30 August 1997, startled by the news of the death of Princess Diana, Amélie drops a plastic perfume-stopper which dislodges a wall tile and accidentally reveals an old metal box of childhood memorabilia hidden by a boy who lived in her apartment decades earlier. Spurning romantic relationships after a few disappointing efforts, she finds contentment in simple pleasures and lets her imagination roam free. Amélie leaves home at the age of 18 and becomes a waitress at the Café des 2 Moulins in Montmartre, which is staffed and frequented by a collection of eccentrics. As a result, her father Raphaël's ( Rufus) withdrawal from society worsens. When Amélie is six, her mother, Amandine ( Lorella Cravotta), is killed when a suicidal Canadian tourist jumps from a church roof and lands on her. To cope with her loneliness, Amélie develops an active imagination and a mischievous personality. A Broadway adaptation premiered at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, California in September 2015.Īmélie Poulain (Tautou) is born in February 1974 and raised by eccentric parents who – incorrectly believing that she has a heart defect – decide to home school her. Amélie won Best Film at the European Film Awards it also won four César Awards (including Best Film and Best Director), two BAFTA Awards (including Best Original Screenplay), and was nominated for five Academy Awards. The film received critical acclaim and was a major box office success. Taking in over $33 million in a limited theatrical release, it is to date the highest-grossing French-language film released in the United States.
The film was a co-production between companies in France and Germany. It tells the story of a shy waitress, played by Audrey Tautou, who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better, while struggling with her own isolation. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre. Production Amélie (also known as Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain) is a 2001 French-German romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie (Audrey Tautou) accidentally discovers a gift for helping others.
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