Genre: Animation
Duration: 75 minuten
Alternative title: Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Country:
France
Directed by: Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang and Maïlys Vallade
Starst: Loïse Charpentier, Victoria Grobois and Yumi Fujimori
IMDb score:
7,6 (1.678)
Releasedate: 25 June 2025
Amélie ou La Métaphysique des Tubes plot
"When you're three years old, you see everything and understand nothing."
The two-and-a-half-year-old Belgian Amélie was born in Japan and firmly believes that she is God. In her eyes, she is the one who makes the plants grow or who can cross the sea by walking. As the center of everything, Amélie has the goal of converting the world to her cult. However, so far she has only managed to convince her babysitter. Her family members themselves treat her as a normal child. Moreover, when she learns that she will emigrate from Japan, her world collapses.
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Actors and actresses
Amélie (voice)
Nishio-San (voice)
Kashima-San (voice)
Claude, the grandmother (voice)
Patrick, the father (voice)
Daniele, the mother (voice)
Juliette (voice)
André (voice)
Doctor / Radio Voice (voice)
Reviews & comments
De filosoof
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- 2449 messages
- 1664 votes
The animated film, or rather, the story on which it is based, combines philosophy and psychology, as well as the Japanese wisdom that every child is a god until the age of three, but on their third birthday must share humanity, with a kind of Hegelian-Christian metaphysics. Thus, Amélie is initially a god, a mere vegetator who sees herself as the center of the world, but gradually learns that she has a body (a bit like God descending into the world as Christ) through which she can enjoy the world but also experience pain. She learns that she will lose everything, but that love, as it were, overcomes loss in the form of memory. When she is rescued by the "enemy" on her third birthday, she learns that shared humanity can overcome any contradiction (such as in war, but also in Eastern vs. Western culture) so that love can even overcome hate. She now realizes that she is not a god, but a human being who cannot live independently and imperturbably like a god, but who must live with other people in this world, which is even better.
I think the film is difficult even for adults: it's primarily a children's film in the sense that it shows the world from a small child's perspective. But her thoughts aren't those of a small child, either, as she sees her brother "as a mathematical equation" or life "as a big, greedy mouth that devours everything": developmental psychology is linked to metaphysical considerations right from the start.
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mjk87 (moderator films)
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- 14514 messages
- 4510 votes
Beautiful animated film. The animations themselves, in a beautiful style (something like watercolor?), are immediately striking, as is the short story about a toddler growing older. I found the magical realism aspect the least appealing, but the parts with the little girl and the Japanese maid were brilliant. Overall, the family drama (joy and sadness) was beautifully understated and therefore realistic and relatable. I did occasionally wonder which war was being referred to, as I couldn't quite place it. 4.0*.
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