Little Amelie – the Character of Rain (Subbed)

Nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Animated Motion Picture!

‘Subbed’ screenings will be presented with the original French soundtrack and English subtitles.

For the first three years of life, a child is closer to the divine than the human. That’s the belief of baby Amelie, at least, born to Belgian parents stationed in Japan in the early 1960s. Her first, transcendent, taste of Belgian chocolate (a gift from visiting Granny) seals the deal: Amelie is a god. She’s also something of a monster – compelling her parents to engage a nanny, Nishio-San, to preserve their sanity and restore order to the household. It’s Nishio-San whose influence will shape the evolution of the toddler to the next stage of childhood.

Adapted from Amelie Nothomb’s 2000 memoir The Character of Rain and influenced by both western and Japanese aesthetics, this delicately animated feature is robustly amusing, shaded with profound emotional truths.