Now Miramax, which pushed ''Life Is Beautiful'' to a $57 million U.S. gross (among foreign films, that's topped only by ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'''s $128 million), has just released ''Amélie'' in New York and L.A. and will expand it in the coming weeks. Some are buzzing that its run will extend all the way to the Oscars next spring (France has announced that ''Amélie'' will be its Foreign Language Film submission).
The movie's strong showing has made an instant star of Audrey Tautou, the 23-year-old gamine who plays its impish heroine. She says that since celebrity worship is for the most part ''not the thing'' in French culture, she was unprepared for Parisians to so embrace her that Montmartre (the neighborhood where the story takes place) has become overrun with tourists ordering ''Amélie baguettes.''
Too bad Tautou doesn't come with English subtitles, since conversing with her is très difficile. From what the translator conveyed, it seems she'll be starring soon in director Stephen Frears' English-language thriller ''Dirty Pretty Things.'' Does Tautou, who's been taking meetings in L.A., itch to work with any big American auteurs? ''I don't think yet I should believe in Santa Claus,'' she purrs.
Hollywood beckons for Jeunet as well. Instead of the sci-fi offers he got after ''Alien Resurrection,'' now the pitches are romantic comedies. ''If it's just a comedy, I can do that in France with more freedom,'' he says. ''So I'd prefer to do a big movie in United States. But not a stupid action movie.... I can only tell you it won't be 'Amélie 2.'''
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