{"product_id":"24197","title":"Amelie (DVD)","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e🔴\u003c\/b\u003e Condition - \u003cb\u003eVery Good 🔴\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForget any preconceptions you might have about French movies or even any apprehensions you may have regarding watching foreign films - this is a truly delightful film that will win your heart with its whimsical charm and innocent quirkiness.\u003cbr\u003eAmélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) is the daughter of two somewhat eccentric and neurotic parents: father Raphaël (Rufus) and mother Amandine (Lorella Cravotta). The only time her father touches Amélie is when he is giving her a medical examination, which causes her heart to palpitate and her father to believe that she is suffering from a heart condition. So Amélie has been educated at home by her mother, who tragically dies from being crushed by a suicide jumper (don't worry about the outlandish plot elements - it's all part of the fun). Amélie became an introverted but rather imaginative child, obsessed with the small things in life, concocting some wonderful fantasies, and possessing the ability to plan rather elaborate acts of kindness (or revenge).\u003cbr\u003eDespite her rather unusual and eccentric childhood, Amélie grows up to be a beautiful but terribly shy young woman living in Montmartre (a district of Paris). She works as a waitress alongside some rather zany colleagues and even zanier customers.\u003cbr\u003eOne day, her life changes when she accidentally discovers an old box (containing toys and memorabilia)  that used to belong to a child hidden away in the wainscotting of her apartment, on the day that Lady Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed. She becomes obsessed with the idea of finding and returning the box to Bretodeau (Maurice Bénichou), who is now a middle-aged man.\u003cbr\u003eWhen her quest succeeds, she turns to the idea of becoming an invisible agent of change to those around her: helping tobacconist Georgette (Isabelle Nanty) find love, encouraging her father to travel by means of a garden gnome (revealing any more would spoil the plot!), explaining to a blind man (Jean Darie) what the world around him looks like, and teaching the insensitive grocer Collignon (Urbain Cancelier) a lesson.\u003cbr\u003eHowever, Amélie's greatest challenge is to assist an eccentric young man Nino Quincampoix (Mathieu Kassovitz) in solving a mystery. Why is a strange bald man taking photographs of himself in instant photo booths all over  Paris and then immediately discarding them in the rubbish bin? Nino is on an eternal quest collecting scraps from photographs from these booths and building a photo scrapbook in his spare time. Amélie has fallen in love with this strange young man but does not have the courage to actually talk to him.\u003cbr\u003eWherein lies the fabulous destiny of Amélie? In between, she confides to a neighbour Raymond Dufayel (Serge Merlin), who is a painter (who only copies a painting of Renoir over and over again) and student of human nature that has never left the doors of his apartment (he has brittle bones). I love their conversations - ostensibly about the painting, but also about Amélie and her love life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEXTRA FEATURES\u003cbr\u003eTheatrical Trailer\u003cbr\u003eFeaturette-Audrey Tautou's Funny Faces\u003cbr\u003eStoryboard Comparisons\u003cbr\u003eGallery-Photo\u003cbr\u003eFeaturette-Making Of\u003cbr\u003eDVD-ROM Extras\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pearls Books n Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45825985872063,"sku":"24197","price":8.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/5552\/0703\/files\/amelie.jpg?v=1783466403","url":"https:\/\/pearlsbooksfnq.com\/products\/24197","provider":"Pearls Books n Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}