![]() ISABELLE NANTY plays one of Amélie's coworkers who's a hypochondriac and finds herself falling for Joseph after Amélie slyly sets them up.DOMINIQUE PINON plays a regular at the café who essentially stalks Gina, his former love, until Amélie sets him up with Georgette.URBAIN CANCELLIER plays the mean-spirited and demeaning grocer who's always disrespectful to his employee.YOLANDE MOREAU plays a widow who still misses her long-dead husband and finds joy when Amélie starts sending her letters from him.SERGE MERLIN plays Amélie's elderly neighbor who hasn't left his home for decades due to a brittle bone condition, but nevertheless helps her find joy in her life.RUFUS plays Amélie's father, an emotionally distant man whose life is brightened by his daughter's efforts.As Amélie enters his life, he finds himself interested in her. MATHIEU KASSOVITZ plays a young man who works in both an adult novelty store and an amusement park haunted house, but finds joy in collecting old and discarded pictures at photo booths around the city.Accordingly, she concocts various plans to do just that, and even pulls a few practical jokes on a mean grocer to make him be more kind to his employee. AUDREY TAUTOU plays a young, sheltered and imaginative waitress who finds joy in helping others find the same in their lives.WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R For sexual content. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? It probably won't be on many kids' radar screens, but older teen looking for a well-made and imaginative foreign film will probably like to see it. As she does so and continues in her efforts to help others, she spreads joy through the lives of those she touches. Although he holds down various jobs, Nino's odd hobby of collecting discarded and torn up pictures from photo booths around the city fascinates Amélie and she sets out, in her own imaginative and highly complex way, to finally meet this man. She even tries to brighten the life of her father by having his beloved gnome figure travel the world.Īmélie also decides to cautiously approach Nino Quicampoix (MATHIEU KASSOVITZ), a young man who she sees as something of a kindred spirit and to whom she's attracted. Then there's Georgette (ISABELLE NANTY) the hypochondriacal tobacconist at the café whom she slyly fixes up with Joseph (DOMINIQUE PINON), the bitter ex-lover of Gina (CLOTILDE MOLLET), another waitress at the café.Īmélie also decides to help Lucien (JAMEL DEBBOUZE), a friendly man who's always picked on and insulted by his employer, Collignon (URBAIN CANCELLIER), the local grocer, via a series of practical jokes that soon cause the mean man to question his sanity. From that point on, the young woman decides to make it her mission to help others find happiness in their lives.Īmong those she targets is Madeleine Wallace (YOLANDE MOREAU), a longtime widow who still longs for her husband and suddenly starts receiving long lost letters from him, thanks to Amélie. ![]() ![]() ![]() Setting out to return them to their now middle-aged owner, Dominique Bretodeau (MAURICE BÉNICHOU), Amélie revels in the anonymous joy she feels upon seeing him rediscover himself. ![]() That changes when she accidentally finds a small, hidden tin filled with childhood mementos in her apartment. Like her painter neighbor, Raymond Dufayel (SERGE MERLIN), known as the glass man for his brittle bone condition that's kept him in his home for the past twenty years, Amélie lives in her own world, observing but rarely interacting with others outside the café where she works for Suzanne (CLAIRE MAURIER), the owner, and serves regulars such as Hipolito (ARTHUS DE PENGUERN), a failed writer. Having lost her mother at a young age and then being raised by her cold physician father, Raphael (RUFUS), Amélie has grown up as an innocent with a vivid imagination. PLOT: Amélie Poulain (AUDREY TAUTOU) is a young woman who works as a waitress at The Two Windmills, a small café in the Montmartre district of Paris. QUICK TAKE: Subtitled Romantic Comedy: After helping an adult stranger revisit his childhood, a young waitress sets out to help others find happiness in their lives. (2001) (Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz) (R) ![]()
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