Amelie

– At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie (Audrey Tautou) accidentally discov..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
8.30 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 2 Minutes
Release Year:
2001
Original Name:
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
Amelie (2001) - Also known as Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie (Audrey Tautou) accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?

Amelie (2001) - Trailer

Release Date:

08 Feb 2002

Language:

French, Russian, English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Writer:

Guillaume Laurant (scenario), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (scenario), Guillaume Laurant (dialogue)

Main Actors:

Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta

Plot:

Amélie is a story about a girl named Amélie whose childhood was suppressed by her Father's mistaken concerns of a heart defect. With these concerns Amélie gets hardly any real life contact with other people. This leads Amélie to resort to her own fantastical world and dreams of love and beauty. She later on becomes a young woman and moves to the central part of Paris as a waitress. After finding a lost treasure belonging to the former occupant of her apartment, she decides to return it to him. After seeing his reaction and his new found perspective - she decides to devote her life to the people around her. Such as, her father who is obsessed with his garden-gnome, a failed writer, a hypochondriac, a man who stalks his ex girlfriends, the "ghost", a suppressed young soul, the love of her life and a man whose bones are as brittle as glass. But after consuming herself with these escapades - she finds out that she is disregarding her own life and damaging her quest for love. Amélie then discovers she must become more aggressive and take a hold of her life and capture the beauty of love she has always dreamed of.

Awards:

Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 58 wins & 65 nominations.

Production:

Miramax Films

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
8.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
Metacritic:
69%