ok, so i read this article because i thought it really was a sequel to amelie, but it is merely a curious 'companion piece' with the same actress that isn't even set inthe same time period.......but the part about the movie not being french enough is especially interesting........................... .Amelie follow-up not French enough for funding, court rules

Jon Henley in Paris
Saturday November 27, 2004
The Guardian

A Paris court ruled yesterday that the latest hit film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou, the director-actress duo responsible for the blockbuster Amelie, was too American to compete in French film festivals or win a French prize.
The ruling followed complaints by French producers' associations that "Un long dimanche de fiancailles", or "A very long engagement", a first world war love story described by some critics as "Amelie in the trenches", had obtained generous French and European film subsidies under false pretences.
The ?45.8m film, a huge domestic success, employed 600 French technicians, 80 French actors and 1,500 French extras for more than two years. But the local producers said 2003 Productions, the film's French production house, was a front for Hollywood studio Warner Brothers. The tribunal agreed, ruling that the company, which is 34% US-owned, had been created specifically "to allow the company Warner Bros France ... to benefit from financial help ... reserved for the European cinematographic industry". The French national cinema centre CNC, which last year distributed ?475m in subsidies and had earlier ruled that the film could qualify for aid, said it was "carefully studying this judgment and its consequences". It could yet appeal.