question: Which French composer and musician wrote the film score "L'Absente", an album of great variety, and Amélie, the soundtrack to the 2001 French film "Amélie", a story about a girl that had been home-schooled since childhood?
answer: Yann Tiersen
context: Title: Yuvan Shankar Raja
  Passage: Yuvan Shankar Raja (born 31 August 1979) is an Indian singer-songwriter, film score and soundtrack composer, and occasional lyricist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu.  He has predominantly scored music for Tamil films.  The youngest son of the greatest tamil film composer Ilaiyaraaja, he began his musical career in 1996, at age 16, when he composed the film score for "Aravindhan".  After initial struggle, he made his big break with the "Thulluvadho Ilamai" soundtrack (2001), and evolved as one of Tamil cinema's most sought-after composers by the mid-2000s.
  Title: L'Absente
  Passage: L'Absente is the fourth studio album by French composer and musician Yann Tiersen.  When French film director Jean-Pierre Jeunet asked Tiersen if he was interested in writing the film score for "Amélie", Tiersen was already working on "L'Absente".  The album was released on 5 June 2001 through EMI France, and was preceded by two promotional singles for "À quai" and "Bagatelle".  "L'Absente" is an album of great variety with Tiersen playing many instruments including an old-fashioned typewriter and a pot, and it is characterized by several guests contributions provided by the 35-member Ensemble Orchestral Synaxis conducted by Guillaume Bourgogne, French folk rock group Têtes Raides, singers Dominique A, Lisa Germano, Neil Hannon, and Belgian actress Natacha Régnier, ondes Martenot player Christine Ott, Christian Quermalet, guitarist Marc Sens, viola player Bertrand Lambert, violinists Yann Bisquay and Sophie Naboulay, saxophonist Grégoire Simon, and drummer Sacha Toorop.  "L'Absente" peaked at number 41 on the French Albums Chart.
  Title: Mathieu Kassovitz
  Passage: Mathieu Kassovitz (born 3 August 1967) is a French director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and actor probably best known in Francophone countries for his role as Nino Quincampoix in "Amélie" ("Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain"; 2001).  Kassovitz is also the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company.
  Title: Amélie
  Passage: Amélie (also known as Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain; ] ; English: "The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain" ) is a 2001 French romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.  Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre.  It tells the story of a shy waitress, played by Audrey Tautou, who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better, while struggling with her own isolation.  The film was a co-production between companies in France and Germany.  Taking in over $33 million in a limited theatrical release, it is to date the highest-grossing French-language film released in the United States, and one of the biggest international successes for a French movie.
  Title: Radhan Ganda
  Passage: Radhan Ganda () is a 2013 Kannada comedy - action film written and directed by Murugan.  It is produced by Confident Group along with Shanta Pictures.  Komal Kumar and Poorna are in the lead roles.  Manikanth Kadri has composed the soundtrack and film score.  The storyline is similar to 2011 Malayalam movie Makeup Man and the 2001 French movie My Wife Is an Actress.
  Title: Amélie (soundtrack)
  Passage: Amélie is the soundtrack to the 2001 French film "Amélie", a motion picture set in Paris, France, about a young woman endeavouring to help and improve the lives of those around her.  Having been home-schooled since childhood, Amélie finally leaves her lifelong home and begins to discover her true vocation in life: awarding her neighbours and colleagues love and happiness.  But when Amélie chances upon her own romance, her adventure truly begins—ever captured by the music of Yann Tiersen.
  Title: Tokyo Fiancée (film)
  Passage: Tokyo Fiancée is a 2014 Belgian romance-drama film written and directed by Stefan Liberski.  It is based on Amélie Nothomb's 2007 autographical novel of the same name.  The movie tells the story of a 21-year-old Belgian woman, Amélie (Pauline Étienne), who has a romance with Rinri (Taichi Inoue), a young Japanese man in Tokyo.  She met him when she offered French language tutoring services through a bulletin board.  It was selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.  It received three nominations at the 5th Magritte Awards.
  Title: Suicide Squad (soundtrack)
  Passage: Suicide Squad: The Album is the soundtrack album to the film of the same name.  The album was released on August 5, 2016, by Atlantic Records and Warner Bros.  Records.  A separate film score album, titled Suicide Squad (Original Motion Picture Score) and composed by Steven Price, was released on August 8, 2016, by WaterTower Music.  The digital edition of the film score album contains eight bonus tracks.  It received mixed to positive reviews by critics, and the Collector's Edition received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media at the 2017 ceremony.  It won 2017 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Soundtrack.
  Title: Rue des cascades
  Passage: Rue des cascades (English: "Cascade Street") is the second studio album by the musician and composer Yann Tiersen.  It was released through Sine Terra Firma in 1996, and subsequently reissued in 1998, 2001, and 2009 through Ici, d'ailleurs... and Virgin Records in CD and double LP formats.  The album, with the exclusion of two pieces, "Naomi" and "La Vie quotidienne", is a collection of short pieces recorded with toy piano, harpsichord, violin, accordion, mandolin, and other conventional and unconventional musical instruments such as an old typewriter in "Pas si simple".  The title track, which was used about one year later for the film score of the Palme d'Or nominated French drama film "The Dreamlife of Angels", was sung by French soloist singer Claire Pichet, who also provided vocals on the track "Naomi", a song that features words from Allen Ginsberg's poem "Kaddish".  François-Xavier Schweyer played the cello on "C'était ici" and "La Fenêtre".  Three tracks, "J'y suis jamais allé", "Pas si simple", and "Soir de fête", will find a wider audience five years later when they were featured on the soundtrack to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's acclaimed film "Amélie".
  Title: L'Art (délicat) de la séduction
  Passage: L'Art (délicat) de la séduction (English: "The (Delicate) Art of Seduction" ) is a 2001 French film directed by Richard Berry.  The soundtrack for the film was composed by Éric Serra.
citations: L'Absente Amélie (soundtrack)