Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
2001 France Color 129 Minutes
Review
It's better to help people than garden gnomes
Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tatou) is a young woman who, as a child, was discouraged from having friends by her neurotic mother and father. Now grown, she resides in the artsy Montmartre section of Paris and waitresses in a local café. One day, when Amélie finds a child's box hidden inside her wall, she returns it to its owner, and when it makes him very happy, she realizes that small deeds can have
a big impact on people's lives.
Bit by bit, through her almost imperceptible gestures, she begins to heal the wounded lives of those around her, if only those in her small part of the world. Eventually, Amélie seeks out potential happiness for herself. She runs into porn shop worker Nino (Mathieu Kassovitz) whose hobby is collecting discarded pictures from photo booths. But can Amélie bring herself to do the impossible:
Meet him, talk to him, love him?
Cast
- Audrey Tautou .... Amélie Poulain
- Mathieu Kassovitz .... Nino Quincampoix
- Rufus .... Amélie's Father
- Lorella Cravotta .... Amandine Poulain
- Serge Merlin .... Glass Man Raymond
- Jamel Debbouze .... Lucien
- Claire Maurier .... Suzanne, owner Two Windmills bar
- Clotilde Mollet .... Gina, waitress in the bar
- Isabelle Nanty .... Georgette, cigarette counter girl in the bar
- Dominique Pinon .... Joseph
- Artus de Penguern .... Hipolito, The Writer
- Yolande Moreau .... Madeleine Wells, concierge
- Urbain Cancelier .... Collignon, The Grocer
- Ticky Holgado .... Man in photo
Links and more
It’s time to pay them a visit (French)
To please the dominant male (French)
Your heart will become breakable as my skeleton
Fanpage Audrey Tautou (French)
Mathieu Kassovitz's Official Website (French)
