Amelie

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Original title: Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Year: 2001
Running time: 120 min.
Country: France
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Screenwriter: Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Music: Yann Tiersen
Cinematography: Bruno Delbonnel
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus Magloire, Lorella Cravotta, Serge Merlin, Jamel Debbouze, Claire Maurier, Clotilde Mollet, Isabelle Nanty, Dominique Pinon, Artus de Penguern, Yolande Moreau, Urbain Cancelier, Maurice Bénichou
Producer: Claudie Ossard, UGC Images
Genre: Comedy. Drama | Comedy-Drama. Magic Realism. Cult Movie
Synopsis: Bursting with imagination and having seen her share of tragedy and fantasy, Amelie (Audrey Tautou) is not like the other girls. When she grows up she becomes a waitress in a Montmartre bar run by a former dancer. Amelie enjoys simple pleasures until she discovers that her goal in life is to help others. To that end, she invents all sorts of tricks that allow her to intervene incognito into other people's lives, including an imbibing concierge and her hypochondriac neighbor. But Amelie's most difficult case turns out to be Nino Quicampoix, a lonely sex shop employee who collects photos abandoned at coin-operated photobooths.

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Awards: 2001: 5 Nominations for Oscar, including Movie of habla no inglesa, Screenplay and Cinematography

2001: Nominated for Golden Globe: Best Foreign Language Picture

2001: 2 BAFTA Awards: Best Original Screenplay and Production Design. 9 Nominations

2001: 4 Awards Cesar: Best Movie, Director, Music, diseño of producción. 13 Nominations

2001: Independent Spirit Awards: Best Foreign Film

2001: European Film Awards: 4 Awards including Best Film & Director

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2001: Toronto Film Festival: People's Choice Award (Best Film)

2001: Critics' Choice Awards: Best Foreign Language Film

2001: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Best Foreign Language Film

2001: David di Donatello Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film

2001: Goya Awards: Best European Movie

2001: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: Best Film

Critics' reviews

"Tautou is utterly captivating (...) It's hard not to fall under the spell of this moonstruck romance"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"If Paris were destroyed tomorrow and the recipe for true love lost, archeologists could reconstruct both to perfection from just a reel of 'Amelie'"

Lisa Nesselson: Variety
"A delicious pastry of a movie -- You see it, and later when you think about it, you smile (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"There's real magic in this movie -- and enough energy to power a whole city on a dark and gloomy night"

Steven Rea: Philadelphia Inquirer
"A movie for aesthetically hungry moviegoers: wildly amusing, sometimes sardonic and always touching. There's so much here, and all of it delightful"

Desson Thomson: The Washington Post
"A frenetic bore that insists on its audience's adoration while making no demands upon their intelligence"

Manohla Dargis: LA Weekly
"While its story of lonely misfits searching for love has appealing moments, more often it turns into an overbearing fable overburdened with fake joie de vivre"

Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times
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