Amelie

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Summary: Charming film
Review: Simply a charming great film. Audrey Tautou is perfect and she is the best thing to come out of Europe in a long time.

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Summary: too long and boring
Review: I fell asleep when I was watching it. It's too slow and boring. Why do people highly rate this movie?

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Summary: Just Amazing!!!!!!!!!!
Review: What a brilliant film. It captures so many emotions, Longing, Sadness, Joy, Passion and most of all Love. Quite a charming movie with a positive message underlying all the while!! This is a movie that should belong in everyones collection. Undoubtedly you will want to watch over and over. I believe most viewers will be able to relate to one if not more of situations and emotions that Amelie finds herself in. The soundtrack is probably the next item you will want to own because it fits the movie like hand in glove, C'est tres bien!! This movie has it all
Humor, Passion, Creative storyline, Music and a Great ending!!
And has nothing to do with that it takes place in my favorite city in the world!!!
Enjoy,
Paul R Harrington

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Summary: Cute and well done
Review: This is the life of Amelie Pulain, a very normal french girl whose destiny is to try and make her friends' lives better by a series of schemes, while trying to find a meaning to her own life.

There are some very good scenes and the production of the movie is terrific. The story is a little bit nonsense, but it is funny, specially the part about the garden dwarf. Although we can't say the acting is terrific, the photography makes up to creat a visually spectacular movie. Audrey Tautou's face is expressive and likeable, but the girl who does Amelie as a kid steals the movie.

Very colorful and a light enterteinment.

Grade 8.5/10

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Summary: Wondrous and Whimsical
Review: "Amelie" is a wondrous and whimsical movie about a shy, beautiful young woman named Amelie who emerges from her sheltered, dream-like existence into the real world.

One fateful night, Amelie discovers a little keepsake box in her apartment. This inspires her to find the owner of the box. She does find the owner. She is so overjoyed by the owner's gratitude that she ventures out to do more good deeds for more people. In the process, she changes peoples' lives for the better. She also learns to trust people. Amelie becomes a participant in life instead of only an observer as she had been. And she eventually overcomes her fear of relationships and finds a soulmate.

Visually, "Amelie" is a marvel in filmmaking with stunning cinematography and surprising, even startling special effects that are seemlessly blended into the comedy, romance, and fantasy of the story. The quirky narration and dialogue are filled with witty and worldy observations about life in Paris and about life in general.

"Amelie" is imaginatively brought to life by the director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and by its radiant star, Audrey Tautou. Hers is a starmaking performance. Tautou endearingly and precisely captures the hesitant charm, fragility, ingenuity, and ultimate determination of our heroine Amelie with exceptional subtlety and grace that should have earned her at least an Academy award nomination. The movie itself deserved to win Best Foreign Picture but didn't. Go figure.

By all means, buy this DVD. You'll be enchanted and grateful for the experience of "Amelie".

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Summary: My favourite movie of all time!
Review: Wow! It's amazing to see a comedy that doesn't slip into two dimensional characters and toilet humour days (the new Austin Powers movie leaps to mind). 'Amelie' shows an intellegence and maturity in it's humour not seen in American movies, and you come out of watching this movie with a lust for life and feeling the magic of being alive. Arthouse films aren't my key area of interest, but trust me, like the Italian film 'Life Is Beautiful' you'll forget your watching a subtitled movie within five minutes.

A wonderful film that has no faults, and will make you laugh whilst not making fun of anyone. Every person in this has his/her own story and eccentricity, and the movie oozes richness and wealth of character.

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Summary: pedantic to almost pretentious
Review: this is not your typical french movie; it offers an updated approach. the movie slowly builds an allegory (through several smaller ones) without rewarding the viewer for all the time spent....unless one who cares about naive games, about building a 'greater sense' around quotidian and minuscule occurences--case in which is not that bad movie altogether.

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Summary: A must see film
Review: Amelie is an intelligent, comedic and often heartwarming portrayal of the dilemna's faced by cynical singles of the present generation. We follow the days that change Amelie's fate forever and lead her to happiness, along with many hilarious situations on the way. This film is light and hopeful and would warm even the coldest heart, thanks to the extremely likeable and charming Amelie (Audrey Tatou) you must see this film.

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Summary: Of Course You're Going To Watch/Buy This - But Why?
Review: Yes, yes, this is Audrey Tautou, cute, perfectly green, French as it gets, alien......that's the word I wanted....alien....is our species really capable of being this wonderful? innocent? perceptive? kind?.....pick one, they're all so alien to the films that have been made up to this point....this is a hurricane of fresh air so badly needed it's not possible to explain until you've seen the film.

Personally, the wicked humor, the philosophical philandering, the innocent good intentions, the soaring human spirit of the whole film gave me a new window on what film can do. This is one that will be seen throughout the century and, if we're lucky, will inspire a new generation of film makers....I can hardly wait.

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Summary: Absolutely charming
Review: A larger then life, comical--yet charming--movie with the same sense of life as movies like 'Chocolat' and 'Life is Beautiful'. The colors in this movie are spectacular.