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Imdb Rating: 8.6
Genre: Comedy
Directed: Guillaume Laurant (scenario) and, Jean-Pierre Jeunet (scenario)
Country: France
Year: 2001
Duration: 122 min

Media: Hot stuff
Recommended by zMin

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Actors: Audrey Tautou (as Amélie Poulain), Mathieu Kassovitz (as Nino Quincampoix), Rufus (as Raphaël Poulain), Lorella Cravotta (as Amandine Poulain), Serge Merlin (as Raymond Dufayel), Jamel Debbouze (as Lucien), Clotilde Mollet (as Gina), Claire Maurier (as Suzanne), Isabelle Nanty (as Georgette), Dominique Pinon (as Joseph), Artus de Penguern (as Hipolito), Yolande Moreau (as Madeleine Wallace), Urbain Cancelier (as Collignon), Maurice Bénichou (as Dominique Bretodeau), Michel Robin (as Mr. Collignon)

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Description: "She'll change your life."

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

Comment: It is the best film i've ever seen.Only the French could make films as good as this. Amélie explores the trivial things in life and it brings you to some realisations of your own in that our lives are so simple and we only need the simplest of things to keep us happy. Amélie is a must for anyone

IMDB TRIVIA FOR FABULEUX DESTIN D'AMÉLIE POULAIN, LE (2001):
- The part of Amélie was originally meant for Emily Watson. She wanted the part but had to decline because she didn't speak French and had already agreed to be in Gosford Park (2001).
- The film has been digitally color-corrected at 2K resolution.
- Director Trademark: [Jean-Pierre Jeunet] [actor] Dominique Pinon.
- Whenever this film was shot on location, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and the crew would clean the area of debris, grime, trash and graffiti, so that the film would match his fantasy more so. This was an especially difficult task when it came time to shot at the huge train station.
- The photo booth picture collection is based on a real collection created by a friend of director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He is credited during the ending credits ("D'aprčs la collection originale de Michel Folco"). A faux photo booth picture collection was created for the film, so that the rights to the real collection did not have to be purchased.
- Director Trademark: [Jean-Pierre Jeunet] [orphans ] death of Amélie's mother. An orphan is considered to have lost both parents. As Amélie's father is still alive, she is not considered an orphan. However, Jean-Pierre Jeunet often portrays children who have suffered the loss of one or both parents.
- Yann Tiersen was not the original lineup for the soundtrack. Jean-Pierre Jeunet heard the song for the first time while he was being driven to the shooting location.
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet originally started collecting the stories and memories that make up the story in 1974.
- The song played during Samantha's peepshow scene at the porn shop isn't included in the film's soundtrack. If you're looking for it, it's "The Child" by Alex Gopher.
- The artwork in Amélie's bedroom (the dog with collar, the white bird) and her crocodile imaginary friend are by artist Michael Sowa.
- Some of the locations in the film can be found in Montmartre. The café 'Les 2 Moulins' can be found at the beginning Rue Lepic and the vegetable/fruit store 'Collignon' at 56 Rue des Trois Frčres.
- There are two films shown when Amélie is in the movie theater. When she watches faces behind her we see two scenes from Jules et Jim (1962). When she makes the comment about people not looking at the road whilst driving in older films, it is during a scene from Father's Little Dividend (1951).
- The main colors in the film (green, blue and red) are inspired in the paintings of the Brazilian artist Juarez Machado.
- The traveling gnome was inspired a rash of similar pranks played out in England and France in the 1990s. In 1997, a French court convicted the leader of Front de Libération des Nains de Jardins (Garden Gnome Liberation Front) of stealing over 150 gnomes. The idea was later used in an advertising campaign for an Internet travel agency.
- Voted #2 in Australia's Favourite Movie poll.

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