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Summary: Bravo !
Review: Outstanding movie ! Great evidence that despite what hollywood-lovers think, European movies are better. The cinematography and the meaning of small details in this (and in many other so called "foreign" movies) is unparalled. American movies are generally too commercialized, airheaded and generally showing norrow perspectives (few exceptions exist, of course). In contrast, Amelie shows how normal, blue collar young people enjoy life in a meaningful way and best of all, they end as happy people while being financially poor. No SUV's, a mini-vans, shopping malls, air-head teenagers, "perfect body" dudes or gals, exercised obsessed people, REAL cafe's (not that cheap imitation called Starbucks), and the list never ends. Is a film showing how life should be lived: making others happy and being happy with simple things. Amelie is a great lesson to the American film industry and the American public as well. Bravo !
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Summary: CHARMING AND TOUCHING
Review: Amelie it's a beautiful story, with beautiful music, view, and all the Paris things.
She's an lonely young woman, that starts to help people arround her.
Audrey Tautou(Amelie), play wonderfully her character, she must win an Oscar.Also the movie.
I can't wait to buy the DVD.
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Summary: beautiful
Review: i watch this movie by DVD, it's fantastic and i watch it again and again. the translation not good in the DVD and the first time when i watch in the beginning , i nearly not knowing what's it about, but when the movie goes on, i really into it and smile when she(Amelie) smile, sad when she sad, then when finished, i think life is beautiful and i want to do something to affect others:]
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Summary: more charming than Paris herself
Review: My own 'Nino' was teasing me last time I saw him about how I should meet him in Paris this week. At least I did see this wonderful film while he was there so I could feel as if I was walking the streets of Montmarte with him.
It was heart stoppingly beautiful - bright & colourful on both the eyes and soul.
Rodrigo should be very pleased that I saw Amelie - it is the antithesis of the English Patient - the movie he holds responsible for any of my sad thoughts.
This film however now moves to the top of my list.
See it more than once - especially if you are overdue a 'happy ending'.
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Summary: Lagaan is better than Amelie...
Review: Having seen both Lagaan and Amelie i am in a better position to judge which one is better. Amelie is basically more like a fairy tale. The lead character doesn't know what she wants in her life. It is clearly vague. All she does is counting orgasms, hooking up two people unsuccessfully, breaking into someone's room to give him hell, returning a treasure to someone who lost years ago. You can hardly call that great deeds. It looks lunatic. On the other hand Lagaan is an epic. It is inspiring. It strikes perfect balance between plot development and character development. Amelie has no plot to develop as it is too thin. Amelie is set in 90's. But it looks like it is set in 60's. Apart from music Amelie has nothing special. It is certainly a good comedy movie. Giving Oscar to this is an insult to Oscar. Either No Man's Land or some other movie should get the award.
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Summary: Turn off your ... cell phones people.
Review: Having read many rave reviews for Amelie I decided to drive 90 miles to the nearest theater that was was showing it. First let me say that I thoroughly agree that Amelie is a lovely, charming film. Audrey Tautou is such a sweety. .... I will definitely buy Amelie on DVD when it comes out and watch it again, hopefully uninterupped, in my own home. I do strongly recommend this movie to anyone who has yet to see it. ....
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Summary: C¿est bonne, La Vie
Review: Vive L'Amour! Vive Paris! This sunny and funny picture is one of the best of 2001. 'Amélie' --both the movie and the character -- is smart and very enchanting. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's fable has universal proportions, once it deals with love and the desire of happiness, that exist in almost every human being. It is the story of a very well meaning girl who tries to happy everybody around -- herself included-- and sometimes she succeds, but sometimes she fails. Having a difficult and lonely childhood the woman Amélie has a simple and meaningless life, until one day she founds a mysterious box inside a bathroom wall. She promises that if she succeds in findinf the owner of the box, she will do good things forever. If she fails: unlucky world!! To put in a nutshell: she finds the owner and her life will never be the same. Neither her father's, her friends', and any one else's who 'dares' to cross her way. Amélie's attitude reminded me very much of Jane Austen's Emma. Both girls try to fix up everybody's life but ends up doing mistakes. However I think Amélie is a bit less naive than Emma. The characters are very well developed. And no one finishes the movie in the same way he/she began. Of course Amélie is the one who has the most dramatic changing. But all the others find some joys in their simple life, and from that time on, life, love, friendship will never be the same again. Audrey Tatou is nothing but perfect. She is beautiful and charming. Sometimes she may look like a femme fatale, but she can perfectly be a unprotected child looking for some love. Her eyes are so beautiful and expressive that they dominate the screen in some scenes. Even in the film poster, I think the eyes are the first thing we see. Mathieu Kassovitz is also very good as Amélie's love interest: Nino. He is naive but not silly or stupid. They make a perfect couple. The supporting cast is also very nice. Every character has his/her charms and dramas, that will only be solved with our heroine's help. The Paris where this fable takes place is a dream land. It is clean and beautiful. The sky is like in heaven. The whole film comes down to be Parisian. More than an way of life, it is a philosohie. People there are different, they think and look different. Moreover, Paris is still the Capital of Love. Another interesting thing in this picture is the photograph. The lighting is very peculiar. CGI can be very usefull sometimes-- it can have other uses than creating dinossaurs. Since the beginning, one can notice it is a one-of-a-kind movie. But it couldn't be different. Director Jeunet is known to be very focused on details, and here every detail counts. To make things much better, the soundtrack is fabulous! The songs perfectly fit every scene, and Paris as well. After 2001, with 'Amélie' and 'Moulin Rouge', Montmartre is back again as a place of bohemian, love, dance and colourful sets. People there are better, more beautiful and lovable. To sum up, this is a charming movie that is recommend for all ages. Mainly for those who are young at heart. It is impossible not to leave the cimena smiling.
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Summary: Il est tres belle
Review: Amelie is great. It's funny, it's romantic...it's a romantic comedy. After Amelie (Audrey Tautou) discovers an ancient box in her apartment, she decides ro be a regular 'do-gooder' for the world. Along the way of doing this, she encounters an odd man who is always scraping underneath photo booths for torn up pictures, which he then pieces back together and puts in a photo album. She begins to fall in love with him, and the two leave each messages in different ways, from her photographing herself as Zorro telling hm where to meet her, to him putting up signs of her stomach with a question mark on it with the words "Ou et Quand" (Where and When) Under these two characters, though, lies the supporting cast, compiled of the elderly painter who can't find the right soul with a woman in his painting, the hypochondriac who begins to fall in love with the jealous ex-boyfriend, the flirt, the bar manager, Amelie's dad, whose gnome apparently had some adventures all over the world, the dreamy guy who likes vegetables who works with the mean grocery store manager. Amelie is sort of a fantasy, the pictures on her wall talk, a photograph talks to her love interest, a pig turns out the lamp, but it is above all a Romantic Comedy of screwy proportions. be warned, the first ten minutes of the movie are absolutely hilarious. I was hurting I was laughing so hard. Amelie definetly ranks on my top ten of 2001, and probably in my ten funniest movies ever. Great Foreign FIlm, destined for the Foreign Film Oscar
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Summary: Il est tres belle
Review: Amelie is a romantic comedy of screwy proportions. It's definetly odd, but definetly good. Amelie is the heroine (Played by the adorable Audrey Tautou). When she finds an ancient box in her apartment, she immediatly decides to find the owner. When she does, she decides to become a regular 'do-gooder'. In doing so, she meets a young man who is constantly sweeping the bottom of photo booths for torn up pictures so he can reassemble them in his photo album. The two leave each other strange messages before finally meeting. Amelie also has a rich supporting cast, and no stone is left unturned. There's the jealous ex-boyfriend, the bossy store manager, the reclusive painter, the dreamy kid who works for the bossy store guy, the hypochondriac, who, um, has sex with the ex-boyfriend, the flirt, the restaurunt manager, the woman whose husband has been gone for several years, and one cannot forget Amelies parents. The dads gnome definetly had some adventures. Amelie is HILARIOUS. I was hurting I was laughing so hard the first ten minutes of the movie. From the suicidal fish to praying for a brother, but instead, getting a person from Quebec with a death wish...definetly ranks in my top ten movies of 2001, and top ten funniest movies ever. Destined for Feriegn Film at the Oscars!!!
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Summary: Not your ordinary foreign film
Review: What could I possibly say that already hasn't been written about this movie. I thought that it was absolutely fabulous. It was by far the best movie I have seen this year, actually longer than that. I found myself being sucked into the world of Amelie, longing for her to find love. And at the end of the movie, I felt a great sense of satisfaction. I left with a smile on my face, and a feeling that anything is possible. I felt better about myself and the world. This is definitely a must see movie.
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