Interview With "Little Amélie Or The Character Of Rain" Filmmakers Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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"Little Amélie or the Character of Rain" is an animated feature directed by Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han. Produced by Maybe Movies and Ikki Films, it adapts Amélie Nothomb's acclaimed novel "The Character of Rain." The film premiered in the Special Screenings section at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and received positive reviews for its animation, storytelling, music, and voice acting. Directors and co-writers Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han were kind enough to spend time speaking with us about their work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from GKIDS. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast and this is my interview with the directors and writers of the film Little Amelie or the character of Rain, Melis Valade,
0:56.5	and Leon Cho Hahn.
0:57.6	When you are three, you see everything and understand nothing.
1:04.4	Open up.
1:05.4	God was finally endowed with a gaze.
1:09.2	And a body too.
1:35.3	What could God do now? what could god do now god's body was a present but then A miracle transpired.
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1:41.3	You were the only one you could see the real me the child
1:47.7	will grow up one day and forget you just as you have forgotten everything was this
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