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Amelie

November 2021

  • Audrey Tautou in Amélie,  a film that celebrates a quirkiness that’s millimeters away from derangement.

    Amélie at 20: how has the sugar-sweet Parisian whimsy aged?

    Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s fantastical romantic comedy made a star of Audrey Tautou and its distinctive visuals influenced a decade’s worth of film-makers

June 2021

  • Audrey Brisson in Amélie the Musical

    Amélie the Musical review – kindness, kooks and kissing cellos in the city of love

    It irons out the eccentricities in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film but this show has a timely message and delights in small pleasures

May 2019

  • Amélie

    For Paris with love: how Amélie became a musical – in pictures

    The much-loved film starring Audrey Tautou has been turned into a stage show. Designer Madeleine Girling explains how she found a new style to match its spirit

April 2019

  • Audrey Brisson, centre, and cast in Amélie the Musical.

    Amélie the Musical review – a rocking realisation of the film

  • Stupendouly imaginative ... Audrey Brisson in Amélie.

    Amélie the Musical review – sepia-toned surrealism that's high on imagination

April 2017

  • Amélie –Phillipa Soo and Adam Chanler-Berat

    Amélie review – a creme brulee of a musical: sweet but ultimately bland

    The Pam MacKinnon-directed adaptation of the whimsical 2001 film struggles to deliver the goods, hemmed in by a saccharine songbook and passionless plot

December 2015

  • Yann Tiersen

    Listen up
    Listen to Yann Tiersen's Porz Goret

    The Amélie composer is back with a new release, a book of sheet music for 10 new piano pieces which relate to to his home on the island of Ushant

December 2001

  • Amelie fails to charm French critics

    Plus: Wahlberg faces lawsuit from former bodyguard; Chris Noonan DisAssociates

November 2001

  • Miramax reveal Amelie Oscar strategy

    Miramax is pinning next year's Oscar hopes on Amelie, the feel-good French film. The film company, which won two Oscars for Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful, is hoping that Amelie can replicate that success.

October 2001

  • Amelie selected as France's Oscar hope

  • Sweet success for record-breaking Amelie

  • Amelie

  • Here's looking at you, kid

August 2001

  • Amelie opens Edinburgh Film Festival

    Among the 161 films that will be screened during the two-week festival is Lucky Break, the new film by Peter Cattaneo, the director of The Full Monty