Amelie: Special Edition (2 Disc Set)

Synopsis

Amelie 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, Amelie 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, Amelie wears a bob that curls in every direction and dresses in red. With a job in a cafe and an aptitude for spying on her neighbors, Amelie 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 cafe between the hypochondriac druggist and a beer-drinking grouch. But when the day is done, Amelie 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 AMELIE, 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. AMELIE is humorous, questioning, and strange, and it will change the lives of all who watch it, if only for a short while after leaving Amelie's world.

Revues:

• "...While Amelie the plucky girl beguiles, AMELIE the charming movie, already an international success, seduces..."
• "...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..."
• "...Amelie's got girl-power by the bucket-load..."
• "...Charming....Bound to capture American hearts and imaginations with its whimsical fable of random acts of kindness..."

Sortie Audio

• Dolby Digital 5.1

Contributeurs:

• Madeline Fontaine (Costume Designer)
• Claudie Ossard (Producer)
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Screenwriter)
• Guillaume Laurant (Screenwriter)
• Yann Tiersen (Composer)
• Bruno Delbonnel (Director of Photography)
• Andre Dussollier (Narrator)
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Supervising Editor)
• Audrey Tautou (Co-Editor)
• Mathieu Kassovitz (Co-Editor)
• Yolande Moreau (Co-Editor)
• Dominique Pinon (Co-Editor)
• Michel Robin (Co-Editor)

Info Supplementaire

• Langues des sorties: English, French
• Longueur: 116 mins
• Certificat: (15)-Suitable for 15 years and over.
• Encodage: PAL
• No. de Disques: 2
• Ratio d'aspect: 2.35
• Format: DVD - Plastic
• Menus interactifs: Yes
• Selection des scenes: Yes
• Bande-annonce cinema: Yes