The fabulous world of Amélie
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German title | The fabulous world of Amélie |
Original title | Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain |
Country of production | France , Germany |
original language | French |
Publishing year | 2001 |
length | 122 minutes |
Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 6 |
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Director | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
script | Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant |
production | Jean-Marc Deschamps , Claudie Ossard |
music | Yann Tiersen |
camera | Bruno Delbonnel |
cut | Hervé Schneid |
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The fabulous world of Amélie (original title: Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain , dt. The fairytale fate of Amélie Poulain ) is a Franco-German feature film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet from 2001 with Audrey Tautou in the title role. The soundtrack comes from Yann Tiersen . The film grossed $ 140 million worldwide, including 33 million in the United States.
action
Amélie Poulain is born in a suburb of Paris as the daughter of a military doctor a. D. and a teacher. The girl receives little attention from her family and no physical contact in the form of hugs or caresses from her father. The only touches for the child come about during the regular medical examinations. Amélie's heart always beats like mad and her father wrongly diagnoses her with a heart defect. That is why they are not allowed to go to public school; she is tutored by her mother and has no contact with other children. As a substitute for this, she invents her own fantasy world, into which she withdraws more and more.
Amélies goldfish called "Sperm Whale" suffers from depression and has tried several times to commit suicide by jumping out of the goldfish bowl. The fish lying on the ground and gasping for breath makes Amélie scream every time, which in turn drives her parents to despair. One day they can no longer bear it and release the goldfish in a body of water nearby. Soon afterwards, Amélie's mother is killed in front of her eyes by a tourist who throws herself to death at the Notre-Dame Cathedral . Amélie's father can't get over it. He retires and spends his time building a miniature mausoleum for the urn containing his wife's ashes.
Years later, Amélie moved out of her parents' house as a young woman and worked as a waitress in the Café des 2 Moulins . Although her everyday life seems rather gray, she finds joy in the little things in life, such as B. jumping pebbles over the Canal Saint-Martin , watching people in the cinema or cracking the crust of crème brûlée with a spoon.
While the death of Lady Diana was reported on television on August 31, 1997 , Amélie accidentally discovers a small box behind a loose bathroom tile that contains the “treasures” of a boy from the 1950s. She decides to return the box to its owner and, if he should be touched, to spend the rest of her life helping other people. In fact, she can track down Dominique Bretodeau and send him the box. He is deeply moved and Amélie takes pleasure in her new role. So she secretly steals his garden gnome from her father and gives it to a friend who works as a stewardess. From then on, Amélie's father received photos of his garden gnome on a journey from all over the world , which ultimately prompted him to travel himself. In addition, Amélie punishes Monsieur Collignon, the bossy owner of a greengrocer who treats his employee badly, she pairs her colleague Georgette, the conceited sick woman, with the jealous Joseph and she makes the concierge of her house happy again by missing a love letter from her decades ago Lover fakes.
Amélie repeatedly meets a collector of discarded pictures from photo booths , Nino Quincampoix. When she finds the album he has lost, she recognizes him as a soul mate and falls in love with him. She sends him messages in various, meticulously worked out ways, but fails again and again shortly before the meeting because of her insecurity. Only after the old painter Raymond Dufayel, who lives in the same house and who has never really enjoyed life because of his glass bone disease , has convinced her to finally open her heart and believe in her own happiness, she dares, Nino personally to face. And so the two finally come together.
production
Creation and pre-production
In 1974, Jean-Pierre Jeunet began to jot down ideas and memories that form the basis of the film. The idea of collecting passport photos from machines was already used in 1981 by the Berlin artist group Die Tödliche Doris in the film Material for the Post-War Period (25 min.). As in The Fabulous World of Amélie , the films consist of passport photos filmed one after the other with an immobile camera, some of which have discoloration, creases and abrasions, which have been torn and partly incompletely reassembled. Originally Emily Watson was supposed to take on the role of Amélie. However, since she did not speak French and had already signed for another film, this collaboration did not materialize.
Filming
Was shot u. a. in the Parisian Café des 2 Moulins , in the Gare du Nord train station , outside at the Gare de l'Est and at the Sacré-Cœur church , where today some fans of the film graffiti in the form of the blue arrows from the "Scavenger hunt" scene to the respective places have sprayed. Since the film was financially supported by the Filmstiftung NRW , the interior shots of the film were shot in the Coloneum in Cologne . The German painter Michael Sowa contributed some bizarre furnishing details. The pig lamp was created by him, as were some of the pictures in Amélie's room, which can be seen in the background.
For the TV sequence, which suddenly refers to Amélie's life in the subtitles ("Raymond Dufayel's attempt at interference is unacceptable. If Amélie would rather live in her dream world and remain an introverted young woman, then that is her right. Because the right to a failed life is inviolable! ”), a sequence from the second part of the four-part Soviet film epic Blockade (1974) about the siege of Leningrad in World War II was used.
The painting that the character Raymond Dufayel, the painter with the vitreous bone disease , keeps repainting is The Breakfast of the Rowers by Pierre-Auguste Renoir .
Film music
A recurring theme in the score by Georges Delerue for the film Jules and Jim by François Truffaut is varied several times as the main theme by Yann Tiersen in his music for this film.
synchronization
Beate Klöckner was responsible for the dialogue book and the dialogue direction on behalf of Neue Tonfilm .
role | actor | Voice actor |
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teller | André Dussollier | Peter Fricke |
Amélie Poulain | Audrey Tautou | Katherina May |
Nino Cincampoix | Mathieu Kassovitz | Philipp Brammer |
Raphaël Poulain | Rufus | Leon Rainer |
Amandine Poulain | Lorella Cravotta | Bettina Redlich |
Raymond Dufayel | Serge Merlin | Horst Sachtleben |
Gina | Clotilde Mollet | Claudia Kleiber |
Lucien | Jamel Debbouze | Florian Halm |
Suzanne | Claire Maurier | Ilona Grandke |
Joseph | Dominique Pinon | Dirk Galuba |
Georgette | Isabelle Nanty | Michele Sterr |
Monsieur Collignon | Urbain Cancelier | Michael Habeck |
Madame Wallace | Yolande Moreau | Inge Solbrig |
Dominique Bretodeau | Maurice Bénichou | Ivar Combrinck |
Valérie Zarrouk | Michèle Tichawsky | |
Old woman | Christiane Bopp | Ursula Traun |
old man | Guillaume Viry | Gerd Potyka |
Eve | Claude Perron | Petra Einhoff |
Man on photo | Ticky Holgado | Ole Pfennig |
Porter | Marie-Laure Descoureaux | Ruth Küllenberg |
Newspaper woman | Frankie Pain | Anita Höfer |
writer | Arthur de Penguern | Michael Schwarzmaier |
Awards
At the ceremony of Césars 2002 won Amélie as Best Film , the Best Director , the Best Original Score and Best Art Direction . He was also nominated in nine other categories, including Best Original Screenplay and Audrey Tautou for Best Actress . The Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma also recognized the production as the best French film .
At the 2001 European Film Awards , the film won in four categories: Best European Film , Best Director , Best Cinematography and the Jameson Audience Award for Best Director . Audrey Tautou was also nominated for Best Actress .
The film was nominated for an Oscar in 2002 in the five categories of Best Production Design , Best Cinematography , Best Foreign Language Film , Best Original Screenplay and Best Sound , but it could not prevail in any of the categories. Even with the Golden Globes , the film was as Best Foreign Language Film nomination. The film received awards in the same category at the Guldbagge Awards, the Independent Spirit Awards and the Spanish Goya Awards, among others . With nine nominations, the film won two British Academy Film Awards in 2002 for Best Original Screenplay and Best Production Design .
The film was nominated for two Chlotrudis Awards and won in the Best Picture category (Audience Award) . The film won the Lumières Prize for Best Screenplay .
In September 2002 the film received the golden screen for over 3 million viewers .
In 2016, The Fabulous World of Amélie ranked 87th in a BBC survey of the 100 most important films of the 21st century .
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “particularly valuable”.
criticism
The commercially highly successful film received good reviews both in France and internationally. Serge Kaganski, an author of the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles , accused the film of conveying an idealized version of French society to the audience and depicting a thoroughly stylized and kitschy Paris. It also seems to be part of the director's strategy that ethnic minorities and homosexuals in particular are hardly represented in the film, although it is precisely these population groups that shape the everyday cityscape of the 18th arrondissement in which the film takes place. Kaganski's criticism culminated in the accusation that “Amélie” was a commercial for Le Pen . Both the director Jeunet and the actor Mathieu Kassovitz firmly rejected this criticism.
The film did not make it into the official competition at the 2001 Cannes International Film Festival because Gilles Jacob, who was responsible for selecting the film, said it was "uninteresting". This caused a larger public debate, as the rejection was interpreted in many places as a contradiction to the great media interest in the film and as a decision "against the audience". Jean-Pierre Jeunet responded to the rejection by bringing the film forward to theatrical release; “Amélie” now ran parallel to the ongoing festival.
DVDs and Blu-rays for the film
- Several editions (some in special packaging) are available on DVD.
- The Blu-ray was released on March 25, 2010 by Universal Pictures.
Web links
- Amélie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Amélie at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Amélie at Metacritic (English)
- The fabulous world of Amélie in the online film database
- The fabulous world of Amélie in the German dubbing index
- The fabulous world of Amélie at German rental
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for The fabulous world of Amélie . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | The fabulous world of Amélie. Retrieved March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Golden canvas - The fabulous world of Amelie
- ↑ The fabulous world of Amélie on fbw-filmbwertung.com
- ↑ https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/16542222 accessed on November 5, 2017
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), as of December 24, 2007
- ↑ http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,536181,00.html , as of December 24, 2007
- ^ Pétition pour le soutien d'Amélie Poulain ( Memento of June 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 5, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.filmrezension.de/filme/amelie.shtml