Amelie s charm will be a moot point for many people. The movie looks colorful and bright almost constantly. The city of lights sparkles in this delightful and original boston globe quirky comedy that garnered 5 academy award nominations. Amelie from montmartre is pragmatic, lighthearted, imaginative and clearly one of the best romantic charmers to come along in a year that has been dominated by posturing fluff. Jeanpierre jeunets amelie is one of those onceinadecade comedies which scatters its charm like pearls from a broken necklace, all the more adorable because they are not real. It is truly one of a kind, eccentric, unusual and uplifting. Amelie decide to change the lives or those around her for the better. The filmmakers made use of computergenerated imagery including computer animation, and a digital intermediate. Amelie is an innocent and naive girl in paris with her own sense of justice. The montmartre of amelie poulain paris paris convention. Jeanpierre jeunets amelie is a delicious pastry of a movie. In this world, paris actually, audrey tautou is the perfect inhabitant.
Amelie le fabuleux destin damelie poulain in french, directed by jeanpierre jeunet, became a french classic with worldwide fame. Amelie 2001 official trailer 1 audrey tautou movie youtube. Amelie if paris were destroyed tomorrow and the recipe for true love lost, archeologists could reconstruct both to perfection from just a reel of amelie from montmartre. The other reason i love the movie is that the montmartre amelie lives in is an unreal, dream version of paris. It is a place of violently contrasting colours, of eccentric characters, where the. She tried once or twice, but the results were a letdown. But will she have the courage to do for herself what she has done for others.
The romantic comedy shows the history of amelie poulain audrey tautou, a waitress in montmartre who keeps watching the people around her. Greatly impressed, he immediately bought tiersens entire catalogue and eventually commissioned him to compose pieces for the film. Modern fable whose style evokes spirit of prewar french cinema and the. Written by jeunet with guillaume laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary parisian life, set in montmartre. The montmartre of amelie poulain paris paris convention and. A map of every amelie filming location in real life in paris. At a tiny parisian cafe, the adorable yet painfully shy amelie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. The amelie characters and their stories bohemian montmartre history, the artists, windmills and streets scenes the world of the paris cafe. Even the sad parts from amelies life, her youth for example, look almost strangely happy. Tautou has got an attractive address to the camera, and her bohemian eccentricity hints at holly golightly or even at two or three removes.
Bygone paris, full of poetry, artists and cobbled streets steals the limelight. She has one of those faces that seem to smile the entire time. And now to the little willette public garden with its oldfashioned merrygoround, below sacrec. The film is full of surprises in both plot and characters. Audrey tautou, mathieu kassovitz, and jamel debbouze amelie 2001 official trailer 1 audrey tautou movie amelie is an innocent. To get to the top of the butte hill, take the flight of steps that line the lawns or the funicular.
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