"Amélie and the Metaphysics of Tubes", a mined design

The challenge of bringing to the screen Métaphysique des tubes, an autobiographical account of Amélie Nothomb 's first three years of life, is a handicapped race. Indeed, it involves transposing a text that is less narrative than woven with memories, sensations, and reflections, postulating the HPI clairvoyance of a baby who is at first inert, half-plant, half-digestive tract, then awakens to consciousness, a little girl who takes herself for God with more than precocious eloquence, then becomes fascinated by death to the point of attempting suicide at the age of 3. Nothomb's darkness and humor are largely watered down or transfigured here in a treatment that intends, in addition to the difficulties already mentioned, to make the film accessible to a child audience.

The two directors, Mailys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han, who have known each other since the Gobelins school, have refined their visual style with Rémi Chayé on his films (