Tuesday, 18 October 2011

Amelie & Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

Amelie:
  • Originally French (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)
  • Made in 2001.
  • RomCom.
  • ' An innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love.'  
  • Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
  •  Main protagonist  played by Audrey Tautou.
  • Budget: $10 million.
  • Box office takings:$173,921,954
  • 122 minutes.

    Won loads of prizes:
  • Best Art Direction.
  • Best cinematography.
  • Best foreign language film. 
  • Best original screenplay.
  • Best sound.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet:
  • Self taught director.
  • September 3rd 1953.
  • Born in France.
  • Passionate about cinema.
  • Starred on TV commercials.
  • Made two short animation movies.
  • Well known for directing Amelie.
  • Trademark of his films: A montage of all of the characters in the film during end credits. 
  • First film was The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (1981).
  • Reoccuring theme of death : Delicatessen / The city of lost children.
  • He gained the European film award for Best Director for Amelie.
  • He frequently uses Audrey Tautou in his films / commercials. 

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