Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s enchanting film comedy AMELIE will open in the US and as you read this, over 5 million people in France will have already seen this film which is being hailed as a return to delirious form for the director of “Delicatessen”.

The soundtrack is no less stunning, scored by YANN TIERSEN in his inimitably romantic and cheerful style.  Abundant in character and mood, Tiersen’s music draws from French musical traditions that sparkle with a modern day ambience.

The marriage of sound and vision came about when Jeunet’s production assistant put on a CD as they were driving along which the director found “amazing”. It was a piece by Yann Tiersen and, by that evening, he had bought all his records and had decided to meet him.  Tiersen, who also worked on the soundtracks of French movies “The Dreamlife of Angels” and “Alice and Martin” is a highly prolific and original multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.

Tiersen’s soundtrack beautifully enhances and compliments the ever changing moods of AMELIE - a story about little Amelie Poulain who, having lost her mother in an unfortunate collision with a suicidal tourist, grows up in a fantasy world before leaving the stifling suburbs to become a waitress in a Parisian café. Although she is preoccupied with secretly improving the lives of everyone around her (from lonely neighbours to her father’s garden gnome) her heart tells her something is missing…until a bizarre photo album leads her down a twisted path through the streets of Monmartre towards her romantic destiny.

“If Paris were destroyed tomorrow and the recipe for true love lost, archeologists could reconstruct both to perfection from just a reel of AMELIE” Variety Magazine

The same could be said about Yann Tiersen’s highly evocative soundtrack.