![]() Jean-Pierre Jeunet, "Amélie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet: “People need positive stories” by Steven MacKenzie, The Big Issue, (March 14, 2016).Everybody had seen the film before – only two people hadn’t – but when you have something positive in a story, it’s always a success because it’s not easy to write a positive story without it being sugary like stupid American films.” “Just two days ago it was screening in a theatre in Paris packed full of young people. People need positive stories, they need something with joy, something light. I was stunned like everybody, and I thought – Amélie is finished in the USA. “Fifteen years ago I showed the film in Toronto and the day after the screening it was 9/11. “This period is more cynical, especially in France,” says Jeunet from his Parisian office. But 15 years later, does its director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (pictured below) think he could make the film today given the tragic events the city has faced? Amélie, released in 2001, is one of the UK’s highest-grossing foreign language films. The titular heroine’s search for love and meaning in Montmartre made the world fall for her and the city as viewed through her eyes.Her mother dies as the result of a successful suicide leap off the towers of Notre Dame, a statement which reveals less of the plot than you think it does. Her father, a doctor, gives her no hugs or kisses and touches her only during checkups-which makes her heart beat so fast he thinks she is sickly. Audrey Tautou, a fresh-faced waif who looks like she knows a secret and can't keep it, plays the title role, as a little girl who grows up starving for affection. You see it, and later when you think about it, you smile. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Amelie" is a delicious pastry of a movie, a lighthearted fantasy in which a winsome heroine overcomes a sad childhood and grows up to bring cheer to the needful and joy to herself.Wallace: "When my sweet little weasel appears at the station…" Did anyone ever write you like that?Īmélie: No. When a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool looks at the finger.Little boy: Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l' imbécile regarde le doigt.A woman without love wilts like a flower without the sun, it rots.Newsstand Woman: Une femme sans amour, c'est comme une fleur sans soleil, ça dépérit.Eva: Les temps sont durs pour les rêveurs.such as, "how many couples are having an orgasm right now?" She amuses herself with silly questions about the world below. In such a dead world, Amelie prefers to dream until she's old enough to leave home.Amelie refuses to get upset for a guy who'll eat borscht all his life in a hat like a tea cozy. He survived, took to the hills, and became a Mujaheddin. But their truck hit a mine in Tajikistan. There he met some Afghan raiders who took him to steal some Russian warheads. An ex-con picked him up, mistook him for a fugitive, and shipped him to Istanbul. 2 - before he could assemble it, a gang of bank robbers took him hostage. In the apartment downstairs from Amélie lives Raymond Dufayel they call him "The Glass Man." He was born with bones as brittle as crystal.If you let this chance go by, eventually your heart will become as dry and brittle as my skeleton. So, little Amelie, your bones aren't made of glass.Si vous laissez passer cette chance, alors avec le temps, c'est votre cœur qui va devenir aussi sec et cassant que mon squelette. Voilà, ma petite Amélie, vous n'avez pas des os en verre.In the English subtitles, this was translated as "We pass the time of day to forget how time passes.". ![]() It is the fear of time (french: "temps") going by, that make one speak so much about today's weather (french "temps").C'est l'angoisse du temps qui passe qui nous fait tant parler du temps qu'il fait.Failure teaches us that life is but a draft, an endless rehearsal of a show that will never play.La vie n'est que l'interminable répétition d'une représentation qui n'aura jamais lieu. Et de ratage en ratage, on s'habitue à ne jamais dépasser le stade du brouillon.Without you, the emotions of today would be the dead skin of another time.Sans toi, les émotions d'aujourd'hui ne seraient que la peau morte des émotions d'autrefois.You couldn't even be a vegetable - even artichokes have a heart.Vous au moins, vous ne risquez pas d'être un légume, puisque même un artichaut a du cœur.I hate the way drivers never watch the road in old American movies. I like to look for things no one else catches.Je n'aime pas dans les vieux films américains quand les conducteurs ne regardent pas la route. I had two heart attacks, an abortion because I smoked crack while I was pregnant.It's better to help people than garden gnomes.
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