At 144 pages and over 11 inches tall, Le Fabuleux Album d'Amélie Poulain is a big beautiful book that captures the whimsical spirit of the film Amélie. The book is complied as a scrapbook style companion to the film. The page layouts are wonderful and full of gorgeous photos and several paragraphs (all in French) describing the scenes and characters as they were described in the movie. I mention again, all of the text of this book is in French. Although most of it is only restating what was narrated within the film. The book offers no forward from the director or behind the scene tales, preferring mostly to let the photos retell the story of the film. The actual text is limited, amounting to only about 15% of the whole book.
What you do get is page after page of captivating film stills in full and two-page spreads. The photos are bright in color and rich with the smallest of details. The large format really draws you in, returning you to the highly-stylized, oversaturated world of Amélie Poulain. Occasionally fold out pages open the book up to an impressive four page spread reaching over a meter wide!
The book moves quickly through the film chronologically giving character synopsis in highly detailed idiosyncratic photo vignettes. It is full of several maps of the set locations and where to find each one geographically within the city of Paris. (I assure you, photocopies of these pages will be taken with me next time I visit the City of Lights with dreams of recreating my favorite scenes from Amélie.)
The film’s endearing flights of fancy are also represented within these beautiful pages. Amélie’s fantasy of being a saint, Nino’s kidnapping, his conversation with the photobooth photos and the travels of the garden gnome are all whimsically represented within these pages. There even is a cute board game of Amélie’s adventures to find Dominque Bredoteau. The book recreates several pages, (if not TOO many pages), of the actual photo album from the film, so you can view them just as Amélie did.
This is a very clever and creative book that was designed well and captures the charm and feel of the film. It is an attractive addition to any collection and I would recommend it to all fans of film, art and Amélie.
It even gets bonus points to its designers, because under the book’s dust cover they have replicated the cover of the prop photo album. Making the book feel like you are actually holding a piece of the movie. I love this book!
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