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Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
(2001)
Country of Origin: France
/ Germany
Year of Production: 2001
Running Times: 120 mins
Format: black and white / colour
Super 35mm
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: DTS Dolby Digital
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen / France 3 Cinéma
/ La Sofica Sofinergie 5 / Le Studio Canal+ / MMC Independent GmbH /
Tapioca Films / UGC Images / Victoires Productions
Executive Producer: Claudie Ossard
Producer: Jean-Marc Deschamps
Production Manager: Jean-Marc Deschamps
Unit Production Manager: Alain Mougenot
Unit Managers: Nicolas Davy, Eric Duchéne
SCRIPT
Script: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant
DIRECTION
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
1st Assistant Director: Christophe Vassort
Assistant Director: Pascal Roy
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Bruno Delbonnel
Steadicam Operator: Jörg Widmer
Electrician: Sophie Mollard
Video Assistant: Ludovic Simeon
Cameras: Technovision Cameras, Zeiss Ultra Prime Lenses
Labs: Laboratoires Éclair, Paris, France
Film Stock: Kodak Vision 320T 5277; Vision 250D 5246
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Hervé Schneid
MUSIC
Music: Yann Tiersen
SOUND
Sound: Jean Umansky
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Vincent Arnardi
Sound Effects: Laurent Kossayan
Sound Effects Editor: Jean-Pierre Lelong
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Key Make Up: Nathalie Tissier
Key Hair: John Nollet
Hair: Véronique Boitout
Costume Designer: Madeline Fontaine, Emma Lebail
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Duboi
Special Effects Supervisor: Yves Domenjoud
Special Effects: Jean-Baptiste Bonetto, Noel Chainbaux, Olivier Gleyze,
Daniel Lenoir, Thierry Reymonenq
VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Supervisor: Alain Carsoux
Digital Compositor: Andre Brizard
Matte Painter: Michael Sowa
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Aline Bonetto
Art Director: Volker Schäfer
Set Decorator: Marie-Laure Valla
Set Dresser: Thorsten Sabel
Set Construction (Cologne): Onkel Tuca FilmDecor
Construction Co-Ordinator (Cologne): John Rawsthorn
Chief Painter: Fabrice Maux
Painter: Jean-Marc Auriol
Painters (Cologne): Karin Beizler, Britta Bogers, Claudin Brackhagen,
Britta Sassmannshausen, Nane Stegat
Carpenters (Cologne): Reiner Brüggen, Wolfgang Gosberg, Gregor Hees,
Anja Merz, Jörn Quel, Lorenzo Sartor
Sculptor (Cologne): Herbert Hees
MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Anne Wermelinger
Accountant: Eva Neufahrt
Driver: Werner Ahrendt
35mm Calibration: Yvan Lucas
LOCATIONS
Locations: Canal Saint-Martin, Paris, France; Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany; Gare de Lyon, Paris, France; Gare de l'Est, Paris, France;
Gare du Nord, Paris, France; Le Métro, Paris, France; Rue Mouffetard,
Paris, France; Station Abbesses, Le Métro, Paris, France; Rue Lepic,
Paris, France; Rue des Trois-Frères, Paris, France
STUNTS
Stunt Co-Ordinator: Patrick Cauderlier
CASTING
Casting: Pierre-Jacques Bénichou, Valerie Espagne
CAST
Audrey Tautou (Amélie Poulain)
Mathieu Kassovitz (Nino Quincampoix)
Rufus (Raphaël Poulain)
Yolande Moreau (Madeleine Wallace)
Artus de Penguern (Hipolito)
Urbain Cancelier (Collignon)
Maurice Bénichou (Bretodeau)
Dominique Pinon (Joseph)
Claude Perron (Eva)
Michel Robin (old man Collignon)
Isabelle Nanty (Georgette)
Clotilde Mollet (Gina)
Claire Maurier (Suzanne)
Serge Merlin (Dufayel)
Jamel Debbouze (Lucien)
Lorella Cravotta (Amandine Poulain)
Armelle (Philomène)
Flora Guiet (Amélie aged 8)
Amaury Babault (Nino as a child)
Jean Darie (blind man)
Ticky Holgado (photo booth man)
Marc Amyot (stranger)
Dominique Bettenfeld (screaming neighbor)
Eugène Berthier (Eugene Koler)
Andrée Damant (Mrs Collignon)
Franckie Pain (newsstand woman)
Marion Pressburger (credits helper)
Charles-Roger Bour (urinal man)
Luc Palun (Amandine's grocer)
Fabienne Chaudat (woman in coma)
Jacques Viala (customer who humiliates his friend)
Fabien Béhar (humiliated customer)
Jonathan Joss (humiliated customer's son)
Jean-Pierre Becker (bum)
Thierry Gibault (endive client)
François Bercovici (his buddy)
Guillaume Viry (vagrant)
Valérie Zarrouk (Dominique Bredoteau woman)
Kevin Fernandes (Bretodeau as a child)
Marie-Laure Descoureaux (dead man's concierge)
Sophie Tellier (Aunt Josette)
Gérald Weingand (teacher)
François Viaur (bar owner)
Paule Daré (his employee)
Myriam Labbé (tobacco buyer)
Robert Gendreu (cafe patron)
Julianna Kovacs (grocer's client)
Philippe Paimblanc (train ticket taker)
Mady Malroux, Monette Malroux (twins)
Valériane de Villeneuve (laughing woman)
Isis Peyrade (Samantha)
Raymonde Heudeline (phantom train customer)
Christiane Bopp (woman by the merry-go-round)
Thierry Arfeuillères (statue man)
Jerry Lucas (Sacré-Coeur boy)
Patrick Paroux (street prompter)
François Aubineau (concierge's postman)
Philippe Beautier (Poulain's postman)
Régis Iacono (Félix L'Herbier)
Franck-Olivier Bonnet (voice of Palace Video)
Alain Floret (voice of the concierge's husband)
Jean-Pol Brissart (voice of the postman)
Jacques Thébault (voice-over)
André Dussollier (narrator)
Frédéric Mitterrand (voice of himself)
Jean Rupert (nasal operation man)
PLOT SUMMARY
The shy Amélie Poulain, the product of a strange
upbringing in an offbeat family, looks for love in the Montmatre district
of Paris. She drifts in and out of the lives of her friends, family
and neighbours, innocently changing them in subtle ways, yet is too
afraid to make the major changes to her own life that will make her
happy. Then one day, she discovers a young man who collects and reassembles
the discarded images from railway station photo-booths - has Amélie
finally found the man of her dreams?
CAPSULE REVIEW
Just when one begins to despair of modern cinema,
along comes something like the remarkable Le fabuleux destin
d'Amélie Poulain to restore one's faith again. Almost impossible
to justice in mere words - this is cinema at its purest - Amelie arrived
at a propitious moment; after another summer of emotionally stunted
Hollywood blockbusters (Pearl Harbor, Planet
of the Apes, The Mummy Returns) and saccharine
also-rans (Pay It Forward, to which Amélie
bears a tenuous resemblance) comes a film aimed at intelligent adults
about real emotions acted out in a wonderfully realised fairy tale world.
It's almost impossible not to fall in love with Amélie,
both the film and the character, brilliantly played by Tautou. This
virtually flawless gem more than makes up for Jeunet's previous release,
the disastrous Alien: Resurrection (1997).
AVAILABILITY
France
Theatrical Distributor: UGC-Fox Distribution
Video Distributor: TF1 Vidéo
DVD Distributor: TF1 Vidéo
Germany
Theatrical Distributor: Prokino Filmverleih
Italy
Theatrical Distributor: BIM Distribuzione
Netherlands
Theatrical Distributor: Paradiso Entertainment
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Miramax Films
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Chile
Rating: 14
Finland
Rating: K-11
France
Rating: U
Germany
Rating: 6
Netherlands
Rating: AL
Sweden
Rating: 7
Switzerland
Rating: 7
UK
Rating: 15
USA
Rating: R
AWARDS
2001
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Audience Award (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) - winner
European Film Awards
Best Actress (Audrey Tautou) - nominated
Best Cinematographer (Bruno Delbonnel) - nominated
Best Director (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) - nominated
Best Film (Jean-Marc Deschamps, Claudie Ossard) - nominated
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Crystal Globe (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) - winner
Toronto International Film Festival
People's Choice Award (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) - winner
2002
Cesar Awards, France
Best Film - nominated
Best Director (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) - nominated
Best Actress (Audrey Tautou) - nominated
Best Supporting Actress (Isabelle Nanty) - nominated
Best Screenplay - nominated
Best Music - nominated
Best Supporting Actor (Jamel Debbouze and Rufus) - nominated
Golden Globes, USA
Foreign Film - nominated
74th Academy Awards, USA
Achievement in Art Direction (Aline Bonetto (art director), Marie-Laure
Valla (set decorator)) - nominated
Achievement in Cinematography (Bruno Delbonnel) - nominated
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year - nominated
Achievement in Sound (Vincent Arnardi, Guillaume Leriche, Jean Umansky)
- nominated
Screenplay Written Directly For the Screen (Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre
Jeunet) - nominated
Orange British Academy of Film and Television
Arts (BAFTAs), UK
Best Original Screenplay (Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet) - winner
Best Production Design (Aline Bonetto) - winner
Best Film - nominated
Best Achievement in Direction (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) - nominated
Best Performance By An Actress in a Leading Role (Audrey Tautou) - nominated
The Anthony Asquith Award For Achievement in Film Music (Yann Tiersen)
- nominated
Film Not In the English Language (Claudie Ossard,
Jean-Pierre Jeunet) - nominated
Best Cinematography (Bruno Delbonnel) - nominated
Best Editing (Hervé Schneid) - nominated
TIMELINE
2001
April
25: Belgium, France, Switzerland (French speaking region) - theatrical
release
July
6: Czech Republic - shown at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival
26: Switzerland (German speaking region) - theatrical release
August
12: UK - shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival
16: Germany - theatrical release
24: Yugoslavia - theatrical release
September
7: Canada - theatrical release (in Québec)
13: Netherlands - shown at the Film by the Sea Film Festival
20: Czech Republic - theatrical release
21: Austria - theatrical release
27: Canada - shown at the Vancouver International Film Festival
October
3: Hungary - shown at the Titanic International Filmpresence Festival
5: Poland - shown at the Warsaw Film Festival; UK - theatrical release
12: Sweden - theatrical release
19: Greece, Poland, South Korea, Spain - theatrical release
25: Hong Kong - theatrical release
26: Finland - theatrical release
November
2: USA - theatrical release (in Los Angeles and New York)
16: USA - theatrical release (limited wider release)
17: Japan - theatrical release (in Tokyo)
December
6: Netherlands - theatrical release
17: France - DVD / video release (TF1 Vidéo
- Collector's Edition)
21: Iceland - theatrical release
2002
January
9: France - video / DVD release (TF1
Vidéo)
February
Day Unknown: Italy - theatrical release
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Amélie - working title
Amélie des Abbesses - working title
Amelie - UK advertising title
Amelie from Montmartre - English language title
Amelie of Montmarte - alternative English language
title
Die Fabelhafte Welt der Amelie - German title
El fabuloso destino de Amelie Poulain - Chilean title
Amelie från Montmartre - Swedish title
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Delicatessen (1991)
La cité des enfants perdus (1995)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Premiere vol.15 no.3 (November 2001) pg.90-91
(USA)
review (by Glenn Kenny)
NEWSPAPERS
Svenska Dagbladet 12 October 2001 (Sweden)
review (Härligt galen fransk komedi by Jeanette Gentele)
KEYWORDS
amusement parks, artists, bicycles, cafes, daydreams, fairs, garden
gnomes, ghost trains, greengrocers, paris, photo albums, photo booths,
photographs, railway stations, sex, subway stations, suicide, videos,
waitresses, zorro
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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