amelie, played by audrey tautou, is a young woman, she works as a waitress in montmartre.t because of her shyness she is unable to tackle the big things in her own life, and one of those is a crush that she's got on a young man who she collides with one day in paris. this is very much a film about amelie's interior life. audrey tautou, so young, so beautiful, embodies this parisian amelie with her short—cut blunt bob. i love the wayjeunet is always dressing amelie in red. it's a colour that suits her complexion beautifully, yet it's such a vivid colour for cinema. you've got this convergence of a genius, like a director, jean—pierrejeunet, and an actress like audrey tautou. jean—pierrejeunet is a master of the whimsical and the fantastical. he studied animation and i think that's really, really evident in his body of work. so much of montmartre has become famous because of amelie, including here. montmartre has always been an artistic quarter but amelie, set at the beginning of the 21st century, in these dazzling hot sunny parisian days, all these scenes set around sacre c