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Summary: Audrey Tautou is great!
Review: This is a quirky film about a rather annoying character, Michelle, played by Audrey Tautou ("Amelie.") Michelle is on a spiritual quest, fueled by her totally absent past ("What was my father like?" she askes her terminally nervous mother. "The past is past" replies Mom, and that's all Michelle ever learns.) As a result, she annoys her friends and alienates her lovers on a spiritual search that ranges from Catholicism, Buddhism and comically, Judaism, inspired by a Jewish boyfriend whose parents live in Israel but is about as Jewish as Brie cheese. The character played by Tautou is irritating and yet there is a bit of Michelle in all of us, searching when young to find out who we really are. The film is amusing and sad all at the same time. While I did not like Tautou's character, her portrayal was fantastic, and the supporting cast was excellent. A fine little film that would appeal to young and old alike.
Rating:
Summary: Audrey Tautou is great!
Review: This is a quirky film about a rather annoying character, Michelle, played by Audrey Tautou ("Amelie.") Michelle is on a spiritual quest, fueled by her totally absent past ("What was my father like?" she askes her terminally nervous mother. "The past is past" replies Mom, and that's all Michelle ever learns.) As a result, she annoys her friends and alienates her lovers on a spiritual search that ranges from Catholicism, Buddhism and comically, Judaism, inspired by a Jewish boyfriend whose parents live in Israel but is about as Jewish as Brie cheese. The character played by Tautou is irritating and yet there is a bit of Michelle in all of us, searching when young to find out who we really are. The film is amusing and sad all at the same time. While I did not like Tautou's character, her portrayal was fantastic, and the supporting cast was excellent. A fine little film that would appeal to young and old alike.
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Summary: God IS Great....But This is only So-So
Review: This is a simple yet complex French film about relationships and finding a faith that one can stick to.
The incomparable Audrey Tautou stars in this lightly serious film and portrays a young model who is struggling with her faith, both in herself and with God. Her relationship with a man has ended and she suffers from a broken heart and a lost soul when she meets a handsome veterinarian (played by Edouard Baer) and begins the quest of falling back in love with something. She stars out a semi-Buddhist and upon meeting Baer feels the need to show him his Jewish roots, convincing him they should become a couple of practicing Jews, before they get married, by taking classes with a local Rabbi. It is an interesting look at how easily faith can be lost and found depending on one's self worth and life circumstances.
This little film is fun to watch and has a very appealing content attached to it but I found myself irritated by the camera work, it jittered and moved around like a camcorder in the hands of an amateur. Audrey Tautou has that childlike grace that offers a camera such depth if it holds her in close-up for longer than a second but her beauty was lost in this project. Instead of being a deeply introspective character in search of something better than herself Tautou just races around flittering about in a camera lens unable to spotlight the message in this story. It could have been great with a little more focus!
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Summary: God is great, this movie isnt.
Review: This movie is advertized as a comedy, but there's nothing funny about it. It's long, and a pure melodrama. I was totally disappointed
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Summary: Tautoulogy
Review: Watching Audrey Tautou is like watching a puppy romp: she's constantly, unrelentingly cute, and then suddenly she does something nasty. In this flick, the worst she does is stick a cigarette in her mouth and suck on it. Suddenly, that pretty little face is transformed into a skeletal death mask, all hard, bony, and unclean-looking. You'd think her agent would object. The next-worst thing she does is get on your nerves, or rather the whole movie does. Everybody but Our Audrey is more or less unattractive and uninteresting, and they seem to be on earth for no other reason than to be consumed by her emotions. Surely good film could be expended on something more worthy than a jerkily edited hour's worth of a 20-year-old second-string fashion model's ill-conceived quest to be Jewish? (By the way, how come nobody in movies ever works at a normal human job?) Audrey T. is much, much better in her other movies, and if she'd give up that revolting habit of smoking, I'd let her kiss me on my birthday.
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