(122 min, 2001)
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writers: Guillaume Laurant (scenario), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (scenario)
Stars: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz and Rufus
The pursuit of happiness
It is 18 June 2010, 13:59:35
In this very second, somewhere, A fly reacts to something it sees and changes direction in 30 milliseconds
A cat purrs at 26 cycles per second, the same as an idling diesel engine
At least 100,000 different chemical reactions occur in your brain
Every person has nearly 400,000 radioactive atoms disintegrating into other atoms in his or her body
Between four and five people are born
And other two people die
Somebody is falling in love.
Someone else makes other person miserable
And someone brings joy to the world.
Amelie Poulain is a waitress in Montmartre. She is 23 years old, lives alone with her cat and she visits her widowed father often. And that's her life – little, sheltered, ordinary. Except is any life ordinary?
One day, the day princess Diana dies, in the day of great sadness and tragedy, Amelie accidentally finds a box filled with childhood souvenirs of a little boy. In this one moment outside world ceases to exist for Amelie, all that matters is that box and Amelie's plan to bring it back to its owner.
When Amelie returns the box to the man, of course still remaining invisible, she is convinced that this is what she has to do. The man, Dominic Bretodeau, remembers everything when he opens that little box – his childhood, all the good and bad memories, which because of the time passing by now turned into nostalgia. All the years, all the moments hit him and convince him to live his life the best he can, as long as he is alive. In the ending scenes we see him reunited with his daughter and grandson. None of that would have happened if it wasn't for Amelie.
