What was ground zero for the manic pixie dream girl movie trope? Zooey Deschanel in “(500) Days of Summer?” Kirsten Dunst in “Elizabethtown?” Winona Ryder in “Autumn in New York?” Chicago Theater ...
C’EST LA VIE: Eliza Jane Schneider, Benjamin Tissell, Lo Steele, and Noah LaPook onstage in Portland Playhouse’s Amélie. (Shawnte Sims) In 2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s French-language romantic comedy ...
Amelie Poulain grew up in solitude. Two tragedies mark her childhood: An emotional goodbye to her pet-slash-best-friend fish and her mother’s death after being trampled by a suicidal tourist. Since ...
What’s it like to look inside the mind of someone else? We get a glimpse of that by watching the Woodland Opera House’s French musical Amélie, based on the movie written by Jean-Pierre Jeanette and ...
In a basement theater, the musical ‘Amelie’ builds a Parisian wonderland full of whimsy and kindness
Glenview native Aurora Penepacker was only 3 when “Amélie” debuted in 2001. The film — about an eccentric young woman living in Paris’s Montmartre neighborhood who secretly orchestrates small acts of ...
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