Having grown up with a cold mother (Lorella Cravotta) and an emotionally absent father (Jamel Debbouze), Amélie (Audrey Tatou), a young Parisian woman with a great capacity for love, has learned that it’s safer to keep to herself. She attempts to satisfy herself with life’s small pleasures (skipping stones, daydreaming), and she makes a good go of it, but she knows that she’s missing out on something. After finding a box of relics in her apartment, she decides to find its owner (Maurice Bénichou) and return it; she decides that she will become a spectacular do-gooder, on the condition that the return of the box makes its owner happy. And in all her attempts to make people happy, the one person she has trouble with is herself.
The movie is humorous, colorful, and has “a hypnotic sense of romance.” The Parisian scenery in Amélie is beautiful, Audrey Tatou’s acting is excellent, and each scene is “soaked” with sepia and greens; sepia to indicate that Amélie lives in a dreamscape-like Paris; greens to give the movie a crazy atmosphere, going from one event to the next to keep the movie going.
Raphael Poulain (Jamel Debbouze), Amélie's father, a doctor, doesn't show young Amélie any love or affection and Amandine Poulaín (Lorella Cravotta), her mother is killed by, a suicidal tourist that jumped off the top of the Notre Dame. As a young adult, she is a shy waitress at a coffee shop, called the Twin Mills, in Paris. Many of the coffee shop's regulars are amusing eccentrics, especially Lucien (Rufus), the guy who sits in to watch Gina (Clotilde Mollet), his ex-girlfriend and make strange comments into his cassette recorder detailing her actions.
But, on August 6th, 1997, something happens that will change her life. Amélie hears the news of Princess Dali’s death, the shock of which causes her to drop a bottle cap that rolls across her bathroom floor and knocks loose a tile in the wall. Hidden away in there is an old tin box containing childhood treasures that must have been put there by a little boy a long time ago. Amélie makes a life-changing decision as she lies in bed that night. She will find the man who hid that box away as a child and return it to him. If it makes him happy, she will dedicate her life to making peoples live happy and If it doesn't make the man happy, to hell with it.
While searching for the owner of the tin-box, Amélie finds a young man named Nino Quincampoix, picking up torn bits of someone’s photo. Amélie is puzzled by this as anyone would be. Why would anyone be picking up bits of a torn photo from a cheap photo booth? As Amelie tries to unravel the mystery, Amélie soon become infatuated with Nino and begins a very complex courtship due to her shyness.
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