She’s not really doing it for herself and she struggles to find connections and love in her own life, yet she manages to really meddle in other people’s lives. The way that she is able to turn something that is essentially grey and drab into a beautiful world full of possibilities. I loved her quirkiness, her beauty and her capacity for such a huge imagination and the way that she sees the world. It just left you with a breath of fresh air. “It was visually so beautiful with this perfect mix of reality and imagination. “I really loved the poetry of the film,” Brisson tells me. She had in fact wanted to play the role Amélie for some time – since 2015 when the musical version had first been staged in America, and had asked her agent to put her forward. She had also played minor film roles including the Madonna-directed W.E and Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter. The film’s quirky, whimsical story centres on Amélie Poulain – a somewhat neglected child who grows up to be a young Parisian waitress, memorably played by French actor Audrey Tatou, The lonely Amélie lives in a world of her own imagination but also sees the loneliness of those around her and she eventually decides to try and solve her friends’ problems through a series of quirky acts of kindness, which in turn, impact on her own circumstances.ġ8 years after its original release, Amélie has been given a new lease of life in the form of a stage musical: Amélie – the Musical, currently touring the UK and starring French-Canadian actor Audrey Brisson in the title role.īrisson had previously starred in Pinocchio at the National Theatre as well as the UK tours of La Strada and The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk. It was also nominated for no less than five Oscars, as well as receiving numerous other international prizes. French film director Jean Pierre Jeunet’s 2001 Amélie did exactly that and the film quickly became one of the most successful French films of all time, and the most successful in America. Every once in a while, a film comes out which really captures people’s imaginations.
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