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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. When he was 19, French filmmaker Liane-Cho Han received a copy of Amélie Nothomb’s autobiographical 2000 novel ...

Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han’s Amélie Nothomb adaptation is a short and splendidly animated story about balancing the joy of discovery with the pain of grief. For one thing, its chubby-cheeked ...

Stop us if you’ve heard this one – a charming, uniquely told foreign animated feature premieres at Cannes before heading to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. It becomes acquired by a ...

Cinema is full of coming-of-age stories, but rarely do they delve back to the very beginnings of a person, before we’re even aware that we are human beings. Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, ...

Directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han adapt Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb's bestselling autobiographical novel, which follows a 2-year-old girl growing up in Japan in the 1960s. By Jordan Mintzer ...

You could be forgiven for thinking Little Amélie is some sort of prequel to Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s delightfully French 2001 fantasy Amélie. Instead, this animated feature from Maïlys Vallade and ...

Jeunet tells IndieWire about making his once-in-a-lifetime arthouse sensation, shrugging off the Oscar disappointments that followed, and why he rejected the chance to direct "Harry Potter." Cannes ...

In this sweet animated film, set in Japan, a Belgian child encounters a flood of new wonders. By Brandon Yu When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an ...

Distributor UGC will roll out Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 2001 classic, in French with English subtitles, for locals and for tourists visiting France for the 2024 Olympiad. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau ...

Sure, there are things that you learn after age three. How to drive. The history of the printing press. Geometry. But the important topics, those covered in the endearingly bright animated biopic ...

Amélie is an extraordinary young woman who lives quietly in the world, but loudly in her mind. She covertly improvises small, but surprising acts of kindness that bring joy and mayhem. But when a ...