Plot
Amélie is a story about a girl named Amélie whose childhood was suppressed by her Father's mistaken concerns of a heart defect. With these concerns Amélie gets hardly any real-life contact with other people. This leads Amélie to resort to her own fantastical world and dreams of love and beauty. She later on becomes a young woman and moves to the central part of Paris as a waitress. After finding a lost treasure belonging to the former occupant of her apartment, she decides to return it to him. After seeing his reaction and his new found perspective - she decides to devote her life to the people around her. Such as, her father who is obsessed with his garden-gnome, a failed writer, a hypochondriac, a man who stalks his ex girlfriends, the "ghost," a suppressed young soul, the love of her life and a man whose bones are as brittle as glass. But after consuming herself with these escapades - she finds out that she is disregarding her own life and damaging her quest for love. Amélie then discovers she must become more aggressive and take a hold of her life and capture the beauty of love she has always dreamed of.
Written by
Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Directed by
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Crew
Production Countries
France, Germany
Production Companies
Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC), MMC Independent, Tapioca Films, Sofica Sofinergie 5, Victoires Productions, Canal+, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Claudie Ossard Productions, France 3 Cinéma, UGC
Languages
Français
Awards
Nominated for 5 Oscars. 59 wins & 74 nominations total