Le Fabuleux destin d'Amile Poulin
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amile Poulin released to the world in April 25, 2001, and was written and directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. This film was an amazing story of a young child-like woman who's ambitions can not have been more pure. Although raised by strict, non social parents, she herself has found to be quite loving in her nature. Just think of the movie like a graceful mix between Romantic, Zorro, Juno, Pushing Daisies, Travelosity and Renoir -all smashed into a blender then served with strawberry ice-cream. The story unfolds as she finds a small old time capsule container in her house and then tries to resend it to the owner. Upon finding him, she secretly gives it to him and through that finds her life's ambition, to help others in her community, and to do it under secrecy. She first helps her father, by means of a Gnome that travels the world (that's where the Travelosity mascot comes in!); falling which she helps members of her work find love, and all the meanwhile she herself is slowly unknowingly helping herself find truly -peaceful love as she begins to help another man which is the overall theme of this wonderful work of art.
This movie is a delight to see, perhaps a bit long, but an amazing treat. The cast was spot on with such amazing acting to bring life into these very deep roles. The cinematography makes all the visuals of this movie played out around you the most different and gratifying experience one will ever see, as to me I felt like I was watching a painting jump to life instead of a movie. The visual troupes were literally ambuntant to the point that I'm sure you'll notice several different things every single time you see it. There are just so many layers to such a wonderfully captured movie.
Overall, I thought it was very well done and set up in a way that would be easily understandable and accessible for the international audience and would be a great movie for you to pick up today!
Alex
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Audrey Tautou is modest to say the least, as well as a talented actress, by her first film being a perfectionist she claims that she shouldn't have won the prestigious Oscar Nomination. She says, "The character I played was too simple to deserve a nomination. She was not complex enough. I had enough with the success I had. I refused to play the game of all the promotion and everything just to try to get a nomination. The success we had was enough for me. It was enough of a weight on my shoulders. If I had been nominated for an Oscar, I wouldn't be able to cross the street!"
ALex
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Jean-Pierrie Jeunet is one of the best directors in French films had has carried the title for
dominantly for the last 20 years. No one has had his success in terms of box-office revenue, victories at the Césars, and even his penetration of the English-speaking movie scene. Jeunet has a unique vision for his art and craft. His history is rich with self artistry and his success is internationally recognized.
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Narrative patterns for “Amelie”
ReplyDeleteAfter watching “Amelie”, the narrative patterns are very evident throughout the movie. The first narrative pattern I noticed was that Amelie lived a very lonely life by minding her own business. She didn’t mind being lonely and seemed to actually have a liking for it. The next narrative pattern that I noticed was she started finding others belongings and felt that she had the duty to return them to their rightful owners. She does this in a peculiar way though by making it seem like the person who lost their belongings just happened to cross paths with it again without the help of someone else when really she was putting in a lot of effort to make sure these objects were returned. Another narrative pattern that I noticed was Amelie starting to notice how others act and how they live their lives. She becomes curious and tries really hard to fix other peoples messy lives and forgets that she needs to be fixing her own messy life as well. Finally, the last narrative pattern was her realizing that she needs to do some things for herself, so she finds the one she know she is in love with she keeps him on his toes and keeps giving him hints to who she is.