Amélie (soundtrack)

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Amélie
Soundtrack by Yann Tiersen
Released	October 1, 2001
Recorded	Unknown
Genre	Film soundtrack
Length	53:03
Label	Virgin Records
Producer(s)	???
Professional reviews
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Yann Tiersen chronology
Black Session (1999)	Amélie (2001)	L'Absente (2001)

Amélie is the soundtrack or original score to the French Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated motion picture Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie).

Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet chanced upon the largely accordion and piano driven music of Yann Tiersen while in a Paris taxicab, and after asking the driver the name of the musician, immediately bought his entire catalogue. Soon after he also commissioned Tiersen to compose additional pieces for the film. Thus the soundtrack features both compositions from his first three albums, but also new items, variants of which can be found on Tiersen's fourth album, L'Absente, which he was writing at the same time.

Beside the accordion and piano the music features parts played with harpsichord, banjo, bass guitar, vibraphone and even a bicycle wheel at the end of La Dispute (which plays over the opening titles in the motion picture).

Prior to discovering Tiersen, Jeunet was primarily considering composer Michael Nyman to score the film.

[edit] Track listing

1. J'y suis jamais allé
2. Les jours tristes (Instrumental)
3. La valse d'Amélie (Original version)
4. Comptine d'une autre été : l'après-midi
5. La noyée
6. L'autre valse d'Amélie
7. Guilty (Al Bowlly)
8. À quai
9. Le moulin
10. Pas si simple
11. La valse d'Amélie (Orchestral version)
12. La valse des vieux os
13. La dispute
14. Si tu n'étais pas là (Fréhel)
15. Soir de fête
16. La redécouverte
17. Sur le fil
18. Le banquet
19. La valse d'Amélie (Piano version)
20. La valse des monstres

[edit] Comptine D'Un Autre Été: L'Après-midi

Comptine D'un Autre Été: L'après-midi is a piano piece composed by Yann Tiersen, best known from Amélie but also used in the German movie Good Bye Lenin!, for which Yann Tiersen composed the soundtrack, too.

The composition is quite a melancholy tune in the key of E minor, played with simple accompaniment patterns. It is understood within the film to contribute a sadness to the film, representing days gone by, in combination with the simple beauty of the piece representing the contrasting emotions felt by the titular character at that point in the film.

Awards
Preceded by -	World Soundtrack Award for Best Original Soundtrack 2001	Succeeded by The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring