Synopsis
Her head full of dreams, twenty-year-old Amélie returns to Japan, where she grew up as a child. She offers private French lessons and meets Rinri, her first and only student, a young Japanese man who soon becomes her lover. Through the surprises, joys, and setbacks of this funny and poetic cultural shock, we discover a young woman whose all spontaneity and tenderness, who combines the grace of an ikebana with the playfulness of a manga character.
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- Co-production : Les films du Worso
- Foreign production companies : Versus production, Forum Films Inc.
- Film exports/foreign sales : Playtime
- French distribution : Eurozoom
Full credits (6)
- Screenwriter : Stefan Liberski
- Director of Photography : Jean-Paul De Zaeytijd
- Music Composer : Casimir Liberski
- Sound Recordist : Christian Monheim
- Foreign Producer : Jacques-Henri Bronckart
- Author of original work : Amélie Nothomb
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : English, French, Japanese
- Coproducer countries : France, Belgium, Canada
- Original French-language productions : Yes
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