Amélie – 15th Anniversary – Vue
“We pass the time of day to forget how time passes.”
Amélie – 15th Anniversary: Nick Harvey decided to take advantage of Vue Cinemas’ new OurScreen audience crowd funding, and set up this screening to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the release of many people’s favourite film.
Celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the Academy Award nominated French gem Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain). Arguably Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s finest, it received critical acclaim and is still the highest-grossing French-language film.
Amélie is both the story of its heroine’s eccentric quest for love and an affectionate, shamelessly old-fashioned portrait of Paris, particularly the picturesque area around Montmartre and the oddball characters living there. Visually brilliant, fast-moving and full of cinephile in-references, Amélie is also instantly accessible and entertaining. While some found its relentless charm overwhelming and its rose-tinted vision of France politically suspect, it became an enormous arthouse hit, received five Oscar nominations and was named European Film of the Year.
Audrey Tautou stars in the title role (one that was written specifically for Emily Watson and for which Vanessa Paradis was even considered) and it earned her international recognition. She has since gone on to star in Dirty Pretty Things (2002), The Da Vinci Code (2006) and Coco Before Chanel (2009), as well as being the host for the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and a jury member at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival.
“It takes so much confidence to dance on the tightrope of whimsy. Amélie takes …. chances, and gets away with them.”
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Amelie 15th Anniversary. 30th April, Vue Cinema, CF10. For more info click the link
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