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FABULEUX DESTIN D’AMELIE POULAIN, LE (AMELIE)

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Stars: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus
Studio: Miramax Films

CAST:

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 … Suzanne
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
Andrée Damant … Mrs. Collignon
Claude Perron … Eva
Armelle … Philomène
Ticky Holgado … L’homme dans la photo
Kevin Fernandes … Bretodeau enfant
Flora Guiet … Amélie enfant
Amaury Babault … Nino enfant
André Dussollier … Narrator / Récitant (voice)
Eugène Berthier … Eugène Koler
Marion Pressburger … Petites mains au générique
Charles-Roger Bour … L’homme à la vespasienne
Luc Palun … L’épicier d’Amandine
Fabienne Chaudat … La femme dans le coma
Dominique Bettenfeld … Le soivin d’Amélie
Jacques Viala … Le client qui humilie son ami
Fabien Béhar … Le client humilié
Jonathan Joss … The Humiliated Customer’s Son
Jean-Pierre Becker … Le clochard
Jean Darie … L’aveugle
Thierry Gibault … Le client aux endives
François Bercovici … Son copain
Franck Monier … Dominique Bredoteau jeune
Guillaume Viry … Le S.D.F.
Valérie Zarrouk … Dominique Bredoteau femme
Marie-Laure Descoureaux … La concierge du mort
Sophie Tellier … La tante Josette
Gérald Weingand … L’instituteur
François Viaur … Le patron du bistrot
Paule Daré … Son employée
Marc Amyot … L’inconnu des photomatons
Myriam Labbé … La cliente du tabac
Jean Rupert … L’opéré des cloisons nasales
Frankie Pain … La marchande de journaux (as Franckie Pain)
Julianna Kovacs … Une cliente de l’épicerie
Philippe Paimblanc … Le contrôleur du train
Mady Malroux … Les jumelles
Monette Malroux … Les jumelles
Robert Gendreu … Le client du café
Valériane de Villeneuve … La femme qui rit
Isis Peyrade … Samantha
Raymonde Heudeline … La caissière du train fantôme
Christiane Bopp … La femme près du manège
Thierry Arfeuillères … L’homme statue
Jerry Lucas … Le petit garçon du Sacré-Coeur
Patrick Paroux … Le souffleur de rue
François Aubineau … Le facteur de la concierge
Philippe Beautier … Le facteur de Poulain
Karine Asure … La jolie fille du rendez-vous
Régis Iacono … Félix L’Herbier
Franck-Olivier Bonnet … Palace Video (voice)
Alain Floret … Le mari de la concierge (voice)
Jean-Pol Brissart … Jacques Grojean (voice)
Frédéric Mitterrand … Himself (voice)
Dean Baykan … (uncredited)
Joan Bennett … Ellie Banks (uncredited) (archive footage)
Clément Chebli … (uncredited)
Rudy Galindo … Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Valérie Labro … (uncredited)
Jean-Michel Larqué … Himself (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Manoush … Nymphomaniac woman (uncredited)
Federico Martín Bahamontes … Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Thierry Roland … Himself (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe … Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jacques Thébault … Voice-Over (voice) (uncredited)
Spencer Tracy … Stanley T. Banks (uncredited) (archive footage)

SYNOPSIS:

Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) is a young woman who glides through the streets of Paris as quietly as a mouse. With wide eyes and a tiny grin, she sees the world in a magical light, discovering minor miracles every day. A shy and reserved person whose favorite moments are spent alone skimming stones into the water, Amélie was raised by a pair of eccentrics who falsely diagnosed her with a heart problem at the age of six and so limited her exposure to the outside world. Now a free and independent woman, Amélie wears a bob that curls in every direction and dresses in red. With a job in a café and an aptitude for spying on her neighbors, Amélie entertains herself by enacting a series of homemade, kindhearted practical jokes. She returns a long-forgotten box of childhood knickknacks to its proper owner, she sends her father’s garden troll on a trip around the world, and she creates a love connection at the café between the hypochondriac druggist and a beer-drinking old grouch. But when the day is done, Amélie finds one stone unturned, and decides to work her magic on the quirky object of her affections, Nino Quincampoix (Matthieu Kassovitz), whom she has never met.
Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (who codirected DELICATESSEN and THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN with Marc Caro) presents Amélie, an aesthetically gorgeous and inventive film. The rich, glowing color scheme is offset by flashbacks in black and white archival footage that give short biographies of each character. A soft-spoken narrator guides viewers through this enlightening fairy tale, which sometimes speeds through the streets and other times drifts in slow motion. Amélie is humorous, questioning, and strange, and it will change the lives of all who watch it, if only for a short while after leaving Amélie’s world.

FABULEUX DESTIN D’AMELIE POULAIN QUOTES:

(Amélie appelle le numéro de l’affiche laissée par Nino.)
“Palace vidéo, roi du porno.” (voix)
“Bonjour. J’appelle pour l’annonce.” (Amélie)
“Vous êtes majeure?” (voix)
“Oui.” (Amélie)
“Vous êtes épilée?” (voix)
“Euh… pardon?” (Amélie)
“Bin j’vous demande si vous êtes épilée parce que le tablier de sapeur aujourd’hui ça rebute le client.” (voix) (Amélie raccroche, écoeurée.)

(Amelie finally decides to call the number left by Nino on the ad.)
“Palace video, king of porn.” (voice)
“Hi. I’m calling about the ad.” (Amelie)
“Are you over 18?” (voice)
“Yes.” (Amelie)
“Are you depilated?” (voice)
“Er… I beg your pardon?” (Amelie)
“I’m asking you if you’ve shaved ‘cos the hair stuff puts off the customers.” (voice) (Amelie precipitately hungs up.)

AWARDS:

The film was a critical and box office success, gaining wide play internationally as well. It was nominated for five Academy Awards:
Best Art Direction, Aline Bonetto (art director), Marie-Laure Valla (set decorator)
Best Cinematography, Bruno Delbonnel
Best Foreign Language Film, France
Best Original Screenplay, Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Best Sound, Vincent Arnardi, Guillaume Leriche, Jean Umansky
In 2001 it won several awards at the European Film Awards, including the Best Film award.

It also won the People’s Choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Crystal Globe Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

In 2002, in France, it won the César Award for:
Best Film
Best Director
Best Music
Best Art Direction