Ama  © lie (also known as Le Fabuleux Destin d'AmÃÆ' © lie Poulain ; French pronunciation: Ã, [l? Fa.by.lÃÆ'¸ des.t ?? d? A.me.li pu'l ?? ] ; English: The Fabulous Destiny of Amà ©  © lie Poulain ) is a 2001 French romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, this film is a strange portrayal of contemporary Parisian life, arranged in Montmartre. It tells the story of a shy waiter, played by Audrey Tautou, who decides to change the lives of those around him for the better, while struggling with his own isolation. This film is a joint production between companies in France and Germany. Taking over $ 33 million in limited theatrical release, it is the date of the most successful French-language film released in the United States, and one of the biggest international successes for French films.
The film received critical acclaim and great success at the box office. AmÃÆ'Â © lie won Best Film at European Film Awards; it also won four CÃÆ'Â © sar Awards in 2002 (including Best Film and Best Director), two BAFTA Awards (including Best Original Screenplay), and was nominated for five Academy Awards.
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Plot
Amà ©  © Lie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) was born in June 1974 and raised by an eccentric parent who - mistakenly believes that he has a heart defect - decides to go home from school. To overcome his loneliness, AmÃÆ'® lying develops an active imagination and a naughty personality. When Ama lied six, her mother, Amandine (Lorella Cravotta), was killed when a suicidal Canadian tourist jumped off the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris and landed on it. As a result, the withdrawal of his father RaphaÃÆ'l (Rufus) from society is getting worse. Amà © à © lie left home at the age of 18 and served as a waiter at the CafÃÆ' © des 2 Moulins in Montmartre, which is managed and frequented by a bunch of eccentrics. She is single but not a virgin; he lets his imagination roam freely, and finds satisfaction in simple pleasures like dipping his hands into a sack of grain and breaking the crÃÆ'¨me brÃÆ'  »lÃÆ' © e with a spoon.
On August 31, 1997, struck by the news of Princess Diana's death, Amstà © stood a plastic perfume drip stop that pulled out the wall tiles and accidentally revealed an old metal box of childhood memorabilia hidden by a boy who lived in her decades apartment. previous. Amelia lied to track the child and return the box to her. He promises himself that if it makes him happy, he will devote his life to bring happiness to others.
After asking the apartment waiter and some of the old tenants about the boy's identity, AmÃÆ'Â © lied to meet his closed neighbor, Raymond Dufayel (Serge Merlin), an artist with brittle bone disease who repeated Party Lunch Boating by Pierre-Auguste Renoir every year. He correctly recalled the boy's name as "Bretodeau". Amelia lied quickly to find the man, Dominique Bretodeau (Maurice BÃ © nichou), and secretly gave him the box. Tearing down his tears by the discovery and memories he held, Bretodeau decided to make peace with his estranged daughter and grandson he had never met. Ama © happily started her new mission.
Amelia lay quietly executing a complex scheme that affected the lives of the people around her. He escorted a blind man to the MÃÆ'Ã… © ta station, giving him a rich picture of the street scene he was passing. She persuaded her father to follow her dreams around the world by stealing her gnome garden and having a photo of a fellow airline maid who posed with landmarks from around the world. He started the romance between his hip-horse associates Georgette (Isabelle Nanty) and Joseph (Dominique Pinon), one of the customers at the bar. He assured Madeleine Wallace (Yolande Moreau), the officer of his flat block, that the husband who abandoned him had sent the last peace of love letter before the last years of his accident. He uses the gaslighting tactics at Collignon (Urbain Cancelier), the evil vegetable seller. Due to his mental exhaustion, Collignon no longer abused his gentle but kind-hearted assistant Lucien (Jamel Debbouze). A Lucien who likes to take over responsibility at a wholesale kiosk.
Mr. Dufayel, after observing Amà © da, started a conversation with him about his painting. Although he had copied the same painting 20 times, he never really caught the gaze of the girl drinking a glass of water. They discussed the meaning of this character, and through several conversations, Amelia began projecting her loneliness to the picture. Dufayel admits this, and uses the girl in the painting to encourage Ama © to check her interest in a unique young man, Nino Quincampoix (Mathieu Kassovitz), who collects photographs of strangers removed from the passport photo booth. When Ama lies to Nino a second time, she realizes that she is in love with him. He accidentally dropped a photo album on the street. AmÃÆ' © lie take it back.
Amelia lies playing a cat-and-mouse game with Nino around Paris before returning her prized album anonymously. After arranging a meeting at 2 Moulins, AmÃÆ' © lied frantically and tried to deny his identity. His co-worker, Gina (Clotilde Mollet), is concerned about Amà © lie's goodness, filtering Nino for her; Joseph's comment about this misleading man lied to believe that he had lost Nino to Gina. It takes Dufayel's view to give him the courage to pursue Nino, resulting in a romantic evening together and the beginning of a relationship. Amelia finally found happiness for herself.
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Cast
Production
In his commentary on DVD, Jeunet explains that he originally wrote the role of Amà © to British actress Emily Watson; in the original design, Amà © lia's father was an Englishman who lived in London. However, Watson's French was not strong, and when he became unavailable for filming, due to the conflict with the filming of Gosford Park, Jeunet rewrote the screenplay for a French actress. Audrey Tautou was the first actress she auditioned after seeing her on a poster for the 1999 film Venus Beauty Institute.
The film was filmed primarily in Paris. The CafÃÆ' des des Moulins (15 Rue Lepic, Montmartre, Paris) where Ama © lie is the real place.
Filmmakers take advantage of computer-generated imagery and digital intermediaries. The studio scene was filmed at Coloneum Studio in Cologne (Germany). The film shares many themes in the plot with the second half of the 1994 Chungking Express film.
Release
The film was released in French, Belgian, and French-speaking Western Switzerland in April 2001, with subsequent screenings at various film festivals followed by worldwide releases. It received limited releases in North America, the UK, and Australasia later in 2001.
The Cannes Film Festival voter Gilles Jacob describes Amy Lyrics as "uninteresting", and therefore was not screened at the festival, although the version he saw was an early cut without music. The absence of AmÃÆ'Â © lie at the festival caused something controversial because of the warm welcome by the French media and the audience in contrast to the voter reactions.
Critical response
At Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an 89% approval rating, based on 178 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The critical consensus of the website reads, "The Good Sense of Amélà © lie is a handler living, fantasy, featuring Audrey Tautou as a fun hero. " At Metacritic, the film has a score of 69 out of 100, based on 31 critics, which shows "favorable general reviews".
Alan Morrison of the Empire Online gave five stars and called them "one of the best years, with potential crossover along the lines of Cyrano De Bergerac and Il Postino . With a unique heart, it may surpass them all â €.
Paul Tatara from CNN praised AmÃÆ'Â © lie ' s playful nature. In his review, he writes, "The strange, free character is often fascinating: the first hour, in particular, is full of fun and cynical laughter."
The film was attacked by critic Serge Kaganski from Les Inrockuptibles for an unrealistic and beautiful vision of past French society with a bit of ethnic minorities. Jeunet dismisses the criticism by pointing out that the photo collection contains images of people of various ethnic backgrounds, and that Jamel Debbouze, who plays Lucien, is of Moroccan descent.
Awards and nominations
The film was a success in the critical field and the box office, gaining international wide game as well. It was nominated for five Academy Awards:
- Best Art Direction - Aline Bonetto (art director), Marie-Laure Valla (decorator set) (lost to Moulin Rouge! )
- Best Cinematography - Bruno Delbonnel (lost to Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring )
- Best Foreign Language Film - France (Losing No Man's Land )
- Best Original Scenario - Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet (lost to Gosford Park )
- Best Sound - Vincent Arnardi, Guillaume Leriche, Jean Umansky (lost to Black Hawk Down )
In 2001, he won several awards at the European Film Awards, including Best Film award. He also won the People's Choice Award at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival and the Crystal Globe Award at the 36th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In 2002, at the 27th CÃÂÂ sar sar award in France, he won the Caesar Award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Music, and Best Production Design. It was also awarded the French Syndicate of Pride MÃÆ'Â © lie Cinema Critics (Best French Film) in the same year.
The film was chosen by The New York Times as one of the "best 1000 movies ever made". The film puts No. 2 in Empire magazine's "The Best 100 Films of World Cinema". The Paste Magazine ranked second on the list of 50 Best Movies of the Decade (2000-2009). In August of the same year, BBC Magazine polled in the 100th century of the 100 greatest films so far, with a rating of AmÃÆ'Â © lie at number 87.
Entertainment Weekly named this movie poster one of the best in the top 25 poster films in the last 25 years. It is also named Ama  © establishing a wild goose for his beloved Nino all through Paris as No. 9 on the list of 25 Romantic Movements. In 2010, an online public poll by the American Cinematographer - the home journal of the American Society of Cinematographers - was named the best movie of the decade.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack for AmÃÆ'Â © lie compiled by Yann Tiersen.
Music adaptation
On August 23, 2013, composer Dan Messe, co-founder and member of Hem's band, confirmed the speculation that he would write a score for musical adaptations of Amy Lyrics, in collaboration with Craig Lucas and Nathan Tysen. Messe also confirmed he would create all the original music for the show and not use the Yann Tiersen score. Initial music adaptation at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in August 2015. It opened on Broadway in March 2017 and closed in May 2017. Production begins pre-Broadway engagement at Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles in December 2016, with Phillipa Soo in the title role.
Jeunet distanced himself from the musical, saying he only sold the right to raise funds for the children's charity "MÃÆ'Ã… © cà © nat Chirurgie Cardiaque" (Surgical Heart Surgery).
Home media
This movie has no global distributors around the world, but Blu-ray Discs have been released in Canada and Australia. The first release took place in Canada in September 2008 by TVA Film. This version does not contain English translations and receives criticism about image quality. In November 2009, an Australian release took place. This time the version contains English subtitles and features without region coding. Momentum Pictures released Blu-ray in the UK on October 17, 2011. The movie is also available in HD on iTunes and other digital download services.
Legacy
For the 2007 television show "Pushing Daisies", the "unique tale", American Broadcasting Company (ABC) seeks a feeling of AmÃÆ'Â © lie , with the same chord of "imagination and passion magic ". Encouraging Aster creator Bryan Fuller says AmÃÆ'Â © lie is his favorite movie. "Everything I love is represented in the movie", he said. "This is a movie that will make me cry out of kindness as opposed to sadness". The New York Times ' review of Pushing Daisies reporting "influence Amy Lions on Encouraging Aster is everywhere ".
Frog species are named Cochranella amelie . The scientist who named it said: "[T] a new species of glass frog is for Ama ©, the protagonist of the fabulous film Le Fabuleux Destin d'AmÃÆ' © lying Poulain ; a film in which little detail plays an important role in the achievement of joie de vivre, such as the vital role that glass frogs and all amphibians and reptiles play in the health of our planet. " article entitled "The new, enigmatic Glassfrog (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae) species from the Andean Amazon slope of Ecuador".
See also
- Movie portal
- French Portal
- Paris Portal
- French cinema
- List of French movies
References
External links
- Official website
- Ama lied on IMDb
- Ama lied at Rotten Tomatoes
- Ama lying in Box Office Mojo
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet discusses the movie
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