Audrey Tautou: Forever Amélie?
Audrey Tautou, 32, an actress from Auvergne, has a stalker: This is called Amélie Poulin, who comes from Montmartre in Paris and was the main character in "The fabulous world of Amélie", Because Tautou was so successful in the role, she has no way to get rid of the Amélie. A new Tautou movie? Ah, Amélie is back!
Since then Audrey Tautou has made eleven films. Because she is now seen as Coco Chanel in the cinema, I would like to check if she deserves the Amélie stigma. By testing some Tautou films for their Amélie factor, how big-eyed and spun does it look? I pick up croissants, make Café au lait and press the remote ...
"Incredible" (2001) Tautou plays a model that wants to cross successively to several religions. "Unbelievable" is above all unbelievably bad, Not despite Audrey Tautou, but unfortunately because of her, because she presented an infusion of her Amélie, but without charm. And that was the main thing. Amélie factor: 10 percent.
"Insanely in love" (2002) Film two after "The Fabulous World ...". And already knows the distributor, how to market the thing: "Amélie on astray" is on the cover of the DVD. Tautou plays a psychopath and that makes her really good. She is lonely, dreamy, the same elf as Amélie - only in evil. Amélie factor: 70 percent.
"Little dirty tricks" (2002) Audrey, an illegally living Turkish woman living in London, cleaning a hotel. Scared and lonely. That will not go well. After two-thirds, I nod briefly away. Amélie factor: 45 percent for appearance and dreaminess.
"L'Auberge Espagnole" (2002) On the cover her name is first mentioned, but the role is tiny: six minutes as a (usually pouting) girlfriend of an exchange student in Barcelona. Amélie factor: lack of mass 10 percent.
"Mathilde - a great love" (2004) "Amélie in the times of war" is on the cover. Director is like "Amélie" Jean-Pierre Jeunet (who also shot the spot for Chanel No 5 with Tautou). Tautou is fantastic. Is she really good only if the story is a bit crazy? Amélie factor: 85 percent. And I mean that positively.
"The Da Vinci Code" (2006) Hollywood, finally! Reduced comes Tautou over, accessories without their own design options. Tom Hanks wears the movie. Amélie factor: 5 percent, for her eyes. But she can do nothing for them.
"Together you are less alone" (2007) "Just like 'Amélie's fabulous world, only prettier' (ChroniquesDuVasteMonde)" is on the cover. We too: in the Amélie Image trap! This film adaptation of an Anna Gavalda novel does not grab me. Maybe it's the height of the fall: Tautou was in the "Da Vinci Code" the last descendant of Jesus Christ, now a consumptive artist. Amélie factor: 15 percent.
"Coco Chanel" (2009) Sad childhood at the orphanage, short career as a vaudeville singer, then a revolutionist in the fashion world: Tautou plays the Coco Chanel as a courageous and highly emancipated woman - with a grim facial expression that would teach Amélie the fear. Amélie factor: 0 percent, finally!
