Version Details

Cast

• Maurice Benichou - Bretodeau (the box man)
• Frank Olivier Bonnet - Palace Video
• Fabienne Chaudat - Woman in Coma
• Mady Malroux - Twin
• Monette Malroux - Twin
• Clotilde Mollet - Gina
• Julianna Kovacs - Grocer's Client
• Myriam Labbe - The Tobacco Buyer
• Flora Guiet - Amélie (8 years old)
• Régis Iacono - Felix L' Herbier
• Fabien Behar - The Humiliated Customer
• Franois Bercovici - His Buddy
• Christiane Bopp - Woman By The Merry-Go-Round
• Charles-Roger Bour - The Urinal Man
• Paule Dare - His Employee
• Jean Darie - The Blind Man
• Valériane De Villeneuve - The Laughing Woman
• Marc Amyot - The Stranger
• Thierry Arfeuilleres - Statue Man
• Francois Aubineau - The Concierge's Postman
• Amaury Babault - Nino (as a child)
• Philippe Beautier - Poulain's Postman
• Jonathan Joss - The Humiliated Customer's Son
• Jacques Thebault - Voice
• Jacques Viala - The Customer Who Humiliates His Friend
• Guillaume Viry - Dominique Bredoteau Woman
• Gérald Weingand - The Teacher
• Valérie Zarrouk - Bretodeau as a child
• Luc Palun - Amandine's Grocer
• Isis Peyrade - Samantha
• Marion Pressburger - Credits Helper
• Jerry Lucas - The Sacré-Coeur Boy
• Claire Maurier - Suzanne
• Serge Merlin - Dufayel
• Isabelle Nanty - Georgette
• Yolande Moreau - Madeleine Wallace
• Frederic Mitterrand - Voice
• Frankye Pain - The Newsstand Woman
• Claude Perron - Eva (the strip teaser)
• Armelle - Philomene
• Andrée Damant - Mrs. Collignon
• Marie-Laure Descoureaux - The Dead Man's Concierge
• Jamel Debbouze - Lucien
• Audrey Tautou - Amélie
• Thierry Gibault - The Endive Client
• Patrick Paroux - The Street Prompter
• Dominique Pinon - Joseph
• Michel Robin - Old Man Collignon
• Rufus - Raphael Poulain (Amélie's father)
• Urbain Cancelier - Collignon (the grocer)
• Robert Gendreu - Café Patron
• Dominique Bettenfeld - The Screaming Neighbor
• Artus de Penguern - Hipolito (the writer)
• Lorella Cravotta - Amandine Poulain
• André Dussollier - Narrator
• Eugene Berthier - Eugene Koler
• Alain Floret - The Concierge's Husband
• Jean-Pierre Becker - The Bum
• Jean-Pol Brissard - The Postman
• Ticky Holgado - The Photo Booth Man
• Raymonde Heudeline - Phantom Train Cashier
• Mathieu Kassovitz - Nino Quincampoix
• Sophie Tellier - Aunt Josette
• Francois Viaur - The Bar Owner
• Frederic Mitterrand
• Maurice Bénichou - Bretodeau (the box man)
• Jacques Thebault
• Tiki Holgado - The Photo Booth Man
• Franck-Olivier Bonnet - Palace Video

Crew

• Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel
• Sound/Sound Designer: Guillaume Leriche
• Dialogue Writer: Guillaume Laurant
• Screenwriter: Guillaume Laurant
• Composer (Music Score): Yann Tiersen
• Producer: Claudie Ossard
• Sound Editor: Gerard Hardy
• Foley Artist: Jean-Pierre Lelong
• Digital Effects: Duboi
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Duboi
• Post Production Assistant: Sophie Vermersch
• Special Effects: Oliver Gleyze ,Yves Domenjoud ,Jean-Baptiste Bonetto ,Les Versaillais
• Stunts: Jean-Claude Lagniez
• Second Assistant Director: Pascal Roy
• Editor: Herve Schneid
• Casting: Pierre-Jacques Benichou
• Sound Effects Director: Laurent Kossayan
• Matte Painting Supervisor: Jean-Marie Vives
• Makeup: Nathalie Tissier
• Hair Styles: John Nollet ,Veronique Boitout
• Continuity: Anne Wermelinger
• Production Supervisor: Jean Marc Deschamps
• Location Manager: Alain Mougenot
• Post Production Assistant: Céline De Seynes
• Additional Photography: Françcois Paumard
• Storyboard: Luc Desportes
• Extra Casting: Alberte Garo
• Stunts: Rémi Canaple ,Pascaline Girardot ,Sébastien Seveau
• Costume Designer: Emma Lebail ,Véronique Elise ,Sylvie Bello
• Special Effects: Thierry Reymoneno ,Noël Chainbaux ,Daniel Lenoir
• Production Assistant: Svetlana Novak
• Publicist: Isabelle Sauvanon
• Dialogue Editor: Alexandre Widmer
• Assistant Sound Editor: Marilena Cavola Hardy
• Boom Operator: Jean-Louis Le Bras
• Executive Music Producer: Cavalier Bleu ,Jacques Smerlak
• Consultant/advisor: Edouard Dubois
• Production Supervisor: Edouard Valton
• Assistant Location Manager: Nicolas Davy ,Eric Duchene
• Still Photographer: Bruno Calvo
• First Assistant Camera: Matthieu Bastid
• Second Assistant Camera: Christophe Perotin
• Steadicam Operator: Patrick De Ranter
• Key Grip: Bruno Dubet
• Grip: Robert Dona ,Dominique Lepage ,Laurent Thiery
• Electrician: Olivier Cazzitti ,Yves Kohen ,Yvan Quehec
• Executive Producer: Antoine Simkine
• Producer: Arne Meerkamp Van Embden
• Production Supervisor: Marc Grewe
• Production Assistant: Claudia Dummer-Manasse
• Second Assistant Director: Dinah Rauenbusch
• Assistant Art Director: Thorston Sabel ,Petra Klimek ,Daniel Kolarov ,Dagmar Wessel
• Assistant Properties: Kerstin Krotz
• Electrician: Thomas Brügge ,Vlasta Kostic ,Andreas Theiner ,Timo Von Burgsdorf ,Marc Von Kuk
• Grip: Kenneth Cornils ,Tim Liehr
• Stunts: Patrick Cauderlier
• Sound/Sound Designer: Sophie Chiabaut ,Vincent Arnardi
• Sound Mixer: Vincent Arnardi
• Art Director: Volker Schaefer
• Sound/Sound Designer: Jean Umansky
• Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Screenwriter: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Digital Effects: Alain Carsoux
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Alain Carsoux
• Production Designer: Aline Bonetto
• Set Designer: Aline Bonetto
• Casting: Valerie Espagne
• Costume Designer: Madeline Fontaine
• Technical Advisor: Christophe Maratier ,Stéphane Bourdon
• First Assistant Camera: Christophe Vassort
• Additional Cinematography: Françcois Paumard

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• Funny Face - DVD
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Amélie: AMG Review
Rebecca Flint Marx , AMG

Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, previously best-known for his collaborations with Marc Caro in Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children, Amélie exhibits the same brand of wicked humor and off-kilter humanism seen in those earlier films. Its plot revolves around its eponymous heroine (played by Audrey Tautou, channeling equal parts Audrey Hepburn and Olive Oyl), a wistful, lonely dreamer driven by her desire to help others. The product of an unhappy childhood -- mom was squashed by the suicide leap of a tourist from Quebec, dad was emotionally distant -- Amélie also craves love. In particular, she craves the love of Nino (director Mathieu Kassovitz), an equally wistful and completely adorable janitor/porn shop cashier she meets at a train station photo booth. Plot, however, tends to take back seat to style, which Jeunet layers on with the subtlety and glee of a drag queen who has just been given lipstick and a mascara wand. Through his eyes, Paris is less a city than an ongoing festival, resplendent with verdant vegetable stands, eccentric old artists, charming cafés, bubbling canals, endless blue skies, and -- as one sequence hilariously illustrates -- numerous couples who have no trouble attaining simultaneous orgasm. This vision raised the ire of a few French critics, who accused Jeunet of portraying Paris as little more than a close cousin to Euro Disney (where is Montmartre's graffiti? Where is its racial diversity?), peopled solely with the kind of cuddly if curmudgeonly characters found more typically in Tin Tin cartoons and Robert Doiseneau photographs. But such criticism misses the point. In Amélie, as in Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children, Jeunet has made a pure fantasy; its reality is that of a parallel universe, where perverse humor co-exists comfortably with genuine, if somewhat manic compassion. Whether he shows Amélie taking innocent pleasure in cracking the surface of a crème brulée or one of her co-workers engaging in a round of (literally) earth-shaking sex in a café bathroom, Jeunet portrays his characters with both loving self-indulgence and a keen appreciation for the absurd; he's aiming for light-hearted comedy, not kitchen sink realism. It is Jeunet's ability to temper his self-indulgence with absurdity that prevents Amélie from drowning in saccharine sentimentality. It is a "feel good" film, no doubt, but not the sort that people offer apologies for liking. Jeunet's energy, wit, and visual ingenuity are infectious. Even if we know that Montmartre is really strewn with trash and that Paris is often rainy and cold, it is hard not to be seduced by both Jeunet's vision of kind hearts, earthy humor, and fortuitous happenstance. Amélie was nothing less than a cinematic phenomenon in France, where it took in 40 million dollars, won an endorsement from President Jacques Chirac, and brought a new wave of tourists to Paris' Montmartre district, where its story is set. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide