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WIDTH="545"><div> Getting it right</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="580" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Amelie Poulain: Audrey Tautou </div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div>  Nino Quincampoix: Mathieu Kassovitz </div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> The Glass Man: Serge Merlin </div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div>  Landlady: Madeleine Wallace</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Joseph: Dominique Pinon </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Georgette: Isabelle Nanty </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div>  </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <B>30 Second Bottom Line</B>: An adult fairy tale set in the magical city of Paris where a lovely young woman plies her wiles to help others find love and eventually she stumbles upon it herself. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Story Line:</B> The fantasy begins with Amelie Poulain's childhood as the wide eyed, grown-up Amelie (Audrey Tautou) clues us in, with a cinematic wink, to the neuroses that abounded in her household. Her mother died, in a truly freak accident, when Amelie was quite young. Her father, a doctor, never comforted nor even touched Amelie, except for an annual physical exam. Amelie was so happy with human contact that her heart fluttered with excitement, a sure sign of a heart condition according to Dr. Poulain. So, Amelie was home-schooled and grew up with no friends.</div> <bR> <div> Fast forward- literally, with a technique that's suffering from overuse these days, but it works here-to the dark eyed innocent as a young woman. Amelie lives in a cozy flat and works in a charming little café you expect to find tucked on a Parisian side street. Little else exists for her, except her keen observance of other people-from a distance-she still has no friends. </div> <bR> <div> She uncovers a small tin of a child's treasures, toys and photos, hidden in her apartment. Determination allows Amelie to find its owner, now a middle-aged man, who reconciles with his son as a result of rediscovering something about himself. Encouraged by this effort, Amelie sees people in need all around her. Funny, she just doesn't see herself falling into that category of needy people.  We almost have to draw her a picture of the one she's meant to be with (pun intended). Nino Quincampoix (Mathieu Kassovitz) is definitely an eccentric sort, with a penchant of his own for collecting. They are both extremely shy, but in this particular telling we know they will find their way to each other.</div> <bR> <div> In the meantime, Amelie works her magic for a co-worker, Georgette (Isabelle Nanty), who is plagued with baseless symptoms of illness and has a mad crush on a café regular, Joseph (Dominique Pinon). For her landlady, Madeleine (Yolande Moreau), Amelie makes sure she receives a long lost letter from her long dead husband. And for a lonely old painter, called the Glass Man (Serge Merlin), whose windows face hers across the courtyard, Amelie opens his door on a world he hasn't ventured into for nearly twenty years. </div> <bR> <div> There are some other characters in her world for which Amelie dons the hat of that mainstay of fables, the trickster. Some quite puzzling and funny things happen to these "not too nice folks" along the way. One of the funniest bits involves a gnome swiped from her father's garden.</div> <bR> <div> The Glass Man, with whom Amelie shares a love of painting, at one point calls her a coward. He tells her she would rather live in a fantasy than real life. They both have a desire to get it right; I think life. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Tell Me More About It</B>: One of the most successful French films ever made, <I><B>Amelie </B></I>was the Audience Award winner at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival. The city of Paris itself is a character, dappled in light and done up in bright colors for the exteriors. When we move inside, we could just stay there, curled up and enveloped in a glow. </div> <bR> <div> The entire cast is superb and Audrey Tautou is luminous as Amelie. Special effects carry us along to the logical conclusion of scenes. Anyone who has ever let an opportunity go by to speak with someone you care about, will recognize that puddle on the floor.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="591" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="587"><div>   R (sexual content, brief nudity)</div> <div> French with English subtitles</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> Pam Singleton © 2001</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> <A HREF="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com"><U><U>pam@reelmoviecritic.com</U></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> Mini Filmography </div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="579" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 ><NOBR><div> Audrey Tautou: <A HREF="id863.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Venus Beauty Institute"><U><I><B>Venus Beauty Institute</B></I></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="286"><div> Mathieu Kassovitz: Director, <I><B>Crimson Rivers</B></I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Jean-Pierre Jeunet: <I>Alien: Resurrection</I></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="286"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="286" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>