If you ask me what my all time favorite movie is... I would surely say Amelie. Ever since I saw the movie in the theater I was carried away to some magical cross processed dream. I instantly fell in love with Amelie's innocent and naive character played by the beautiful Audrey Tautou. Throughout the movie Amelie helps others find happiness and also finds love along the way. The cast is full of amazing supporting characters including the very handsome Mathieu Kassovitz who plays Amelie's love interest Nino Quincampoix. Here's some interesting little known facts... Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet always casts Dominique Pinon in all his movies. He likes to cast actors with unusual facial features, often uses wide camera angles and his main characters are often orphans or have lost their parents. The "crossed processed" feel and look is due to extensive use of color grading in order to give his movies the desired (often fantastic) ambiance. The closing credits of his movies show images of every actor from the movie.
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We pass the time of day to forget how time passes.
On September 3rd 1973, at 6:28pm and 32 seconds, a bluebottle fly capable of 14,670 wing beats a minute landed on Rue St Vincent, Montmartre. At the same moment, on a restaurant terrace nearby, the wind magically made two glasses dance unseen on a tablecloth. Meanwhile, in a 5th-floor flat, 28 Avenue Trudaine, Paris 9, returning from his best friend's funeral, Eugène Colère erased his name from his address book. At the same moment, a sperm with one X chromosome, belonging to Raphaël Poulain, made a dash for an egg in his wife Amandine. Nine months later, Amélie Poulain was born.
September 28th, 1997. It is exactly 11am. At the funfair, near the ghost train, the marshmallow twister is twisting. Meanwhile, on a bench in Villette Square, Félix Lerbier learns there are more links in his brain than atoms in the universe. Meanwhile, at the Sacré Coeur, the nuns are practising their backhand. The temperature is 24°C, humidity 70%, atmospheric pressure 990 millibars.
With a prompter in every cellar window whispering comebacks, shy people would have the last laugh.
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Amelie has one friend, Blubber. Alas the home environment has made Blubber suicidal.
I am nobody's little weasel.
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Life's funny. To a kid, time always drags. Suddenly you're fifty. All that's left of your childhood... fits in a rusty little box.
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A woman without love wilts like a flower without sun
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