What is Amelie / The City of Lost Children about?

Name: Amelie / The City of Lost Children
Genre: Art House/Foreign,Comedy
Released: 2006-11-02

Jean-Pierre Jeunet in Person! Double Feature: AMELIE, 2001, Miramax, 120 min. Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s poetic fantasy about a wide-eyed young Parisian waitress (Audrey Tautou) who manages to influence the destinies of all who meet her. Filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz (LA HAINE) co-stars as Amelie’s would-be boyfriend. THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN, 1995, Sony Classics, 112 min. Jeunet and Caro’s second feature is just as bizarre, sinister and wildly imaginative as DELICATESSEN, mixing elements of Dr. Caligari, Victor Hugo and Rube Goldberg into the story of a kind-hearted circus strongman (Ron Perlman) and his coquettish 7-year old side-kick (Judith Vittet) who attempt to stop a wicked scientist (Daniel Emilfork) from stealing the dreams of little children. Discussion in between films with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

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What is Amelie / The City of Lost Children about?: Jean-Pierre Jeunet in Person! Double Feature: AMELIE, 2001, Miramax, 120 min. Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s poetic fantasy about a wide-eyed young Parisian waitress (Audrey Tautou) who manages to influence the destinies of all who meet her. Filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz (LA HAINE) co-stars as Amelie’s would-be boyfriend.

THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN, 1995, Sony Classics, 112 min. Jeunet and Caro’s second feature is just as bizarre, sinister and wildly imaginative as DELICATESSEN, mixing elements of Dr. Caligari, Victor Hugo and Rube Goldberg into the story of a kind-hearted circus strongman (Ron Perlman) and his coquettish 7-year old side-kick (Judith Vittet) who attempt to stop a wicked scientist (Daniel Emilfork) from stealing the dreams of little children. Discussion in between films with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet.