Amélie at 20: how has the sugar-sweet Parisian whimsy aged?
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s fantastical romantic comedy made a star of Audrey Tautou and its distinctive visuals influenced a decade’s worth of film-makers
June 2021
Amélie the Musical review – kindness, kooks and kissing cellos in the city of love
It irons out the eccentricities in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film but this show has a timely message and delights in small pleasures
May 2019
For Paris with love: how Amélie became a musical – in pictures
The much-loved film starring Audrey Tautou has been turned into a stage show. Designer Madeleine Girling explains how she found a new style to match its spirit
April 2019
Amélie the Musical review – a rocking realisation of the film
Amélie the Musical review – sepia-toned surrealism that's high on imagination
April 2017
Amélie review – a creme brulee of a musical: sweet but ultimately bland
The Pam MacKinnon-directed adaptation of the whimsical 2001 film struggles to deliver the goods, hemmed in by a saccharine songbook and passionless plot
December 2015
Listen up
Listen to Yann Tiersen's Porz Goret
The Amélie composer is back with a new release, a book of sheet music for 10 new piano pieces which relate to to his home on the island of Ushant
December 2001
Amelie fails to charm French critics
Plus: Wahlberg faces lawsuit from former bodyguard; Chris Noonan DisAssociates
November 2001
Miramax reveal Amelie Oscar strategy
Miramax is pinning next year's Oscar hopes on Amelie, the feel-good French film. The film company, which won two Oscars for Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful, is hoping that Amelie can replicate that success.
October 2001
Amelie selected as France's Oscar hope
Sweet success for record-breaking Amelie
Amelie
Here's looking at you, kid
August 2001
Amelie opens Edinburgh Film Festival
Among the 161 films that will be screened during the two-week festival is Lucky Break, the new film by Peter Cattaneo, the director of The Full Monty
