Amélie - videos, teasers and stills from filming
All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "Amélie"
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
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2:2 (122 min)
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What's left behind the scenes
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet dreamed of casting Emily Watson in the lead role (hence the French name of the main character, Amélie). The actress also wanted to play Amélie, but it didn’t happen for two reasons – she didn’t speak French and, moreover, she had already agreed to star in Robert Altman’s "Gosford Park" (2001).
- The film is full of stories and memories from the director's collection, which he began to gather back in 1974.
- The photo collection that Nino collects actually exists and belongs to the director's friend, Michel Folco (he is thanked in the end credits).
- It was not possible to show the real photo collection in the film (French law prohibits showing random people in a film without their consent), so the photo collection had to be recreated using photographs of actors in minor roles. For this, the actors were seated in front of the camera and asked to portray a particular facial expression, and often they were simply told, "Oh, you have chalk on your shoe" or "What's that on your forehead," and the camera was clicked at that moment.
- The paintings we see in Amélie's room, as well as the imaginary crocodile that the heroine befriends, were invented and painted by artist Michael Sowa.
- In the places in Paris where the main scenes of the film were shot, artists and decorators had to work hard to clean the walls of houses from all sorts of graffiti.
- Yann Tiersen might not have become the film's composer if Jean-Pierre Jeunet hadn't accidentally heard his music.
- The one-legged man dancing in the television fragment – Sam “Peg Leg” Jackson – is a blues singer.
- The traveling gnome was the subject of pranks in England and France in the 90s. In 1997, the leader of the "Garden Gnome Liberation Front" (French: Front de Liberation des Nains de Jardins) was accused of stealing 150 such gnomes. This idea later formed the basis of an advertising campaign for a travel internet agency.
- The original title of the film translates as: "The Fantastic Destiny of Amélie Poulain".
- The dark-skinned guitarist singing gospel in the television fragment is Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
- The style that the film is rich in was borrowed by the director from French poet Jacques Prévert and director Jean Renoir.
- Audrey Tautou received the role of Amélie Poulain after the film’s director saw her portrait on a poster.
- The name Hippolyte is a reference to the minor character Hippolyte Terentyev, the unlucky philosopher from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel "The Idiot" (1869).
- In the cinema, Amélie watches two films: François Truffaut’s "Jules and Jim" (the episode where Amélie turns to the audience) and Vincent Minnelli’s "Father's Little Dividend" (the episode where Amélie says she doesn't like it when drivers don't look at the road in American films).
- In the scene when Amélie's father talks about flowers, he quotes Serge Gainsbourg’s song Le poinçonneur des Lilas.
- Factual error: Princess Diana died in the morning of August 31, 1997, not August 30. Also, the day of April 7, 1980, mentioned in the film, was a Monday, not a Friday.
- Yann Tiersen might not have become the film's composer if Jean-Pierre Jeunet hadn't accidentally heard his music.
- The original title of the film translates as "The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain."
- In the cinema, Amélie watches two films: "Jules and Jim" by François Truffaut (the episode where Amélie turns to face the audience) and "The Shop Around the Corner" by Vincente Minnelli (the episode when Amélie says she doesn't like it when drivers don't look at the road in American films).
- In the scene where Amélie's father talks about flowers, he quotes the song Le poinçonneur des Lilas by Serge Gainsbourg.
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