Word: urbain
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...most likeable character; for all of Amélie’s shy allure, she seems aggravatingly out of touch with the reality around her. The large supporting cast is just as stellar, providing a neighborhood full of eccentric foils for Amélie’s do-gooding. Urbain Cancelier and Jamel Debbouze are particularly amusing as the domineering greengrocer and his meticulous assistant, whose neatly arranged stand doubles as a local meeting-place. If anything, the subplots are so engrossing that one feels vaguely cheated by their brevity. What’s more, Jeunet sets his film...
...movie with Richard Dreyfuss in 1974 and earned Richler an Oscar nomination for the screenplay. He also wrote prolifically on such political topics as the Quebec separatist movement, scoffing at the law banning exterior signs in any language but French as "linguistic cleansing." His novels Cocksure (1968) and St. Urbain's Horseman (1971) both won the Governor General's Literary Award, Canada's highest writing prize...