![]() ![]() Brought up in France's south-central Auvergne region, Tautou enjoyed a sheltered childhood. "That's why I don't do more than two films a year and one day I will stop. Her tendency to immerse herself in roles meant she often saw her own family almost as strangers during filming, said Tautou. I am not comfortable with it," Tautou told Girard in an interview for Le Figaro. One recent interviewer, Isabelle Girard, concluded that although famous everywhere from "Hollywood to Kyrgyzstan", Tautou was a shrinking violet who took pleasure in making herself appear invisible. "Amelie", in which a quirky Montmartre waitress played by Tautou decides to dedicate herself to helping others out, took over $173 million worldwide and remains the highest-grossing French-language film ever released in the US. Her role at Wednesday's night's opening ceremony will require her to put on the glitz and set aside self-effacement as she welcomes some of the biggest names in the industry, from Steven Spielberg to Nicole Kidman. Raised in a quiet corner of rural France, Tautou has largely shunned Hollywood and says she does not see herself as a movie star. Still wrestling with the burden of that success and famously ill at ease with the limelight, Tautou will be put to a radical test as the frontwoman for the world's most prestigious movie festival. Audrey Tautou, this year's Cannes Film Festival mistress of ceremonies, won hearts around the world - if not those of critics back home - as the pixie-faced heroine of "The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain". ![]()
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