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Amelie (DVD)

Audrey Tautou (actor), Mathieu Kassovitz (actor) and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (director)
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Sight and Sound, 10/01/2001, p.40-1, "...Amelie's got girl-power by the bucket-load..."

Chicago Sun-Times, 06/30/2002, p.5, "...A delicious pastry of a movie -- A lighthearted fantasy with a winsome heroine....A magical charmer..."

USA Today, 11/02/2001, p.7E, "...Charming....Bound to capture American hearts and imaginations with its whimsical fable of random acts of kindness..."

Entertainment Weekly, 11/09/2001, p.83, "...While Amelie the plucky girl beguiles, AMELIE the charming movie, already an international success, seduces..."

New York Times, 11/02/2001, p.E17, "...Mr. Jeunet's sense of humor gives the movie heart; his real affection for the medium can be seen in all the funny little curlicues and jottings around the action..."

Title Note

Theatrical release: November 2, 2001

Distributor Note

Amelie

Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay, this magical comedy earned overwhelming acclaim nationwide! A painfully shy waitress working at a tiny Paris cafe, Amelie makes a surprising discovery and sees her life drastically changed for the better! From then on, Amelie dedicates herself to helping others find happiness ... in the most delightfully unexpected way! But will she have the courage to do for herself what she has done for others?

Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment.

Amélie

Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay, this magical comedy earned overwhelming acclaim nationwide! A painfully shy waitress working at a tiny Paris cafe, Amélie makes a surprising discovery and sees her life drastically changed for the better! From then on, Amélie dedicates herself to helping others find happiness ... in the most delightfully unexpected way! But will she have the courage to do for herself what she has done for others?

Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Release Note

DVD Features:

Region 1
2-Disc Set
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - French
Additional Release Materials:
Audio Commentary - 1. Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Director
Production Interview - 1. Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Director
2. Cast & Crew
Behind the Scenes Footage
Bonus Short - 1. THE GARDEN GNOME'S TRAVELS
Featurette - 1. INSIDE THE MAKING OF AMELIE
2. THE AMELIE EFFECT
3. THE LOOK OF AMELIE
4. FANTASIES OF AUDREY TAUTOU
Music Video - 1. Quai
Trailers
Audition Footage - 1. Lead Cast
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
Text/Photo Galleries:
Filmographies
Poster Art
Film-to-Storyboard Comparison

Product Notes

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.

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5 out of 5 stars fun from beginning to end, June 3, 2008
By nickname
The visuals are great and the characters are all entertaining in their own way. The storyline never gets boring and is hilarious in its own quiet way.

5 out of 5 stars Brilliant Fun, February 8, 2008
By French New Waver
This movie is a visual delight and fun to watch from beginning to end.

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