Directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han discuss the film’s color palette and techniques they used after having worked on films like ‘The Little Prince’ and ‘I Lost My Body.’ ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Mercifully, Little Amélie or the Character of Rain is not a prequel to Amélie, the 2001 French hit about the crème ...

Fragrant Nature Film Creations is making its first foray into international acquisitions, picking up Indian rights to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When he was 19, French filmmaker Liane-Cho Han received a copy of Amélie Nothomb’s autobiographical 2000 novel “Métaphysique des ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Until the age of two and a half years old, Amélie, a Belgian girl born in Japan, is in a vegetative state. Then, she falls into ...

Possibly the first bonafide coming-of-age movie about a two-year-old girl who learns her place in the world and how it works, Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han's "Little Amélie or the Character of Rain ...

Belgian novelist Amélie Nothomb’s recollections about spending her early years in Japan inspired her 2000 novel, “The Character of Rain,” the basis for a lovely and touching French-language animated ...

Twenty years on, the quirky romantic comedy is as iconic and timely as ever. Hannah Strong explores the film's unique appeal, and why its moments of magic are so right for now. Twenty years ago, a ...

Their Amélie is less of the pixie-ish prankster gamine of Audrey Tautou in the movie — though Barks radiates the mischievous joy she takes in her anonymous efforts to fix the lives of all those around ...

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 ...