amelie, played by audrey tautou, is a young woman, she works as a waitress in montmartre.ds for people and make other people's lives better. but because of her shyness, she's 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—pierre jeunet, and an actress like audrey tautou. jean—pierre jeunet 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 in 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

amelie, played by audrey tautou, is a young woman, she works as a waitress in montmartre. this vivid interior life. but because of her shyness, she's 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. 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—coeur. and i think in cinema, it gave paris a whole new lease of life just because of the romantic, idyllic, idealistic way that jean—pierrejeunet filmed amelie. another great moment of 2024 for me was at the venice film festival, when i met the celebrated director pedro almodovar. he had made his first film in the english language, the room next door. even though it deals with a hard topic, he does it with his customary flourishes of colour and humour. being close — in the room next door, so to speak — as a terminally ill person ch