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Amélie (2001)

Original title: Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

dir: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Amélie Poulain was a girl who grew up isolated from other children. Raphaël, her taciturn, schizoid ex-Army doctor father, mistakenly believes that she suffers from a form of hypertension (a mistake resulting from the increase in her heartbeat caused by the rare thrill of physical contact with her father, who only ever touches her during medical check-ups). Her mother Amandine, a neurotic schoolteacher with shaky nerves, sees to Amélie's education. Amandine dies when Amélie is young, the victim of a freak accident involving a suicidal Québécoise woman who throws herself off the top of Notre Dame Cathedral and lands on Amélie's mother. Raphaël withdraws even further as a result, and devotes his life to building a rather eccentric shrine in the garden to Amandine's memory, which houses her ashes. Left to amuse herself, Amélie develops an unusually active imagination.

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