Watch this funny video from the film ‘Amielie’

Amélie is one of the Dans Movies are popular in French films in 2001 directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. Its original French title is Le FABULEUX Destin d’Amélie Poulain, which literally translates as “The fabulous destiny of Amélie Poulain.”

Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a bit whimsical and idealized representation of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre. It tells the story of a shy waitress who decides to change the lives of those around him for the better, while struggling with her own isolation.

Amélie won best film at the European Film Awards, it won four César Awards (including Best Picture and Best Director), two BAFTA Awards (including Best Original Screenplay) and was nominated for five Academy Awards.

synopsis

Amélie Poulain was a girl who grew up isolated from other children. Raphaël, her taciturn, antisocial ex-Army doctor father, mistakenly believes that she suffers from a heart condition (a mistake resulting from the increase in her heartbeat caused by the rare thrill of physical contact with her father, who only ever touches her during medical check-ups.

As a young woman, Amélie is a waitress in a small Montmartre café, The Two Windmills, run by a former circus performer. The café is staffed and frequented by a gang of eccentrics. By age 23, life for Amélie is simple; having spurned romantic relationships following a few failed efforts, she has devoted herself to simple pleasures, such as dipping her hand into sacks of grain, cracking crème brûlée with a teaspoon, skipping stones across St. Martin’s Canal, trying to guess how many couples in Paris are having an orgasm at one moment (”Fifteen!”, she informs the camera correctly!), and letting her imagination roam free.

Her life begins to change on the day Princess Diana dies. After hearing the news of her death on television, Amélie drops her perfume bottle cap, knocking loose a bathroom wall tile. Behind the loose tile she finds an old metal box of childhood memorabilia hidden by a boy who lived in her apartment decades earlier.

Directed by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Produced by: Jean-Marc Deschamps, Claudie Ossard

Written by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet (scenario), Guillaume Laurant (dialogue)

Narrated by: André Dussollier

Starring:
Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Claire Maurier, Isabelle Nanty, Dominique, Pinon, Serge Merlin, Jamel Debbouze, Arthus de Pengerne, Maurice, Bénichou

Music by: Yann Tiersen

Cinematography: Bruno Delbonnel

Editing by: Jeffery Schneid
Distributed by: UGC (France), Miramax Films (USA)[1]

Release date(s):
April 25, 2001 (France)
October 5, 2001 (UK)
November 16, 2001 (USA)
December 21, 2001 (Australia)

Running time 122 min.
Country: France, Germany
Language: French

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