Amelie

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Summary: Everyone should watch this
Review: Man, this is like the ultimate chick flick, but I swear, I would marry Amelie in a second. She's cute, but not too much, is smart and scheming and so full of goodness. Makes you want to move to gay Paree and find someone like her. You can't help but watch this and say YAY Amelie, YAY!

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Summary: One of my fave movies...
Review: I don't have a huge DVD collection because I am very picky about the movies I purchase. I only purchase films I will enjoy watching over and over again. Amelie is one of them. Amelie is a young woman that lived in Paris with her dad. She finds a box with old mementos and returns it to the rightful owner. She then decides to embark on a mission of doing good things for people.. Will she find love in the process? You'll have to see it. Not only was the script great, but the cinematography will blow you away.

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Summary: Absolutely Stunning
Review: I really don't have too much to say other than this movie was fabulous. In a period where movies are becoming less and less original, this was one of the most refreshing spins on a love story. You have to watch it to see it's simply remarkable.

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Summary: Trés Magnifique!
Review: Amélie is by turns a black comedy and a quirky romance. The storyline is the ever-familiar boy-meets-girl/girl-meets-boy, although the writing is refreshingly free from clichés.

The movie introduces us to Amélie, her family, and her coworkers in a rather original way, with a narrator describing them as they appear. The script throughout the movie is incredibly succinct and descriptive. The characters are described with only a few words, but are so well portrayed in those brief moments that I found it almost poetic in its depth. Not that the language is especially flowery; just insightful. The dialogue is similarly well done and there is often more than just one layer in the conversations.

The characters are fantastic; real and conveying a lot of depth. Each actor plays his or her role very convincingly and much of the humour is so good because the characters are so well-played.

The cinematography is also very good, and the sets are wonderfully warm and fit well with the movie's feel. Much of the camera work is shot with a wide-angle lens. Thus almost all of the scenes have at least a little bit of background in them. For me this helped immerse me more fully in the movie, as though I was really there.

There are some very funny moments in this film, with two scenes among the most hilarious of any I have ever watched. For such clever comedy it is also quite subtle; you are not beaten over the head with a punchline, and there aren't really any running jokes, as such. Well, there is one, but it changes in each of the three times it occurs in order to place the emphasis on slightly different aspects.

As has been stated in other reviews, there are some risqué elements to this movie, so it would not be appropriate for young children. It's more that the scene flashes up for a few seconds in relation to what Amglie is thinking and then disappears - that sort of thing. Also, the inside of a sex shop is part of a couple of scenes. But the movie doesn't engage in lengthy sex scenes that involve the main characters.

I highly recommend this movie for everyone interested in quirky romantic-comedies.

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Summary: Suprised, LOVED IT !!!
Review: Not knowing what this moive was or even that it was related to a film I enjoyed many years ago (city of lost children), I picked this movie up based on the Cover alone.

This movie is so wonderfully optimistic, and beautiful. The only trouble with this movie is trying to convince people I know to watch a subtitles french movie :(

Its easily one of My top 10 movies of all time, oddly enough a top ten thats packed tight with much darker films (Tidus, Natural Born Killers, Akira, THX 1138) I have refered to this as the ray of sunshine in my top ten movies :)

If you havent't seen this movie please watch it. I would recommend it over any other movie I have watched, because it leaves such a "positive, warm and fuzzy" lasting feeling after viewing.



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Summary: French charm
Review: Yes, Amelie is a charming movie, like almost everyone is saying, but it is not the most charming movie ever, and it is not the best movie ever. I felt that the movie tried a little too hard to be charming. Audrey Tautou is cute, but I swear that half the movie was various closeups of her smiling face! The quirky characters and the off-beat humor made the movie interesting enough, and the French atmosphere and scenery is wonderful.

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Summary: Best Movie Ever
Review: This is really my favorite movie of all time. The cinematography is amazing- it makes every frame in the movie a work of art. The story and the actors are incredible too. I can't believe this movie didn't win any of the academy awards it was nominated for; what a blatant injustice.

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Summary: Good movie ... some flesh though
Review: This is a funny movie. You have to sit close to the TV though so you can read all the sub-titles.

I think a lot of big budget movies are made with only a single good idea to go on. This movie has some fifteen good ideas - good solid funny or quirky story ideas - to entertain us.

There is, however, some sex here and there, so you have to be careful. I think it would be just as good a movie without it, but the movie maker goes for some sex gags (and is not shy about showing flesh) even though they are not actually that funny. Ah well.

The actress who plays Amelie is adorable. She is the centerpiece of the movie, but she has a lot of help making things work. There are quite a few unique and fun characters coming and going throughout the story. The little girl who plays Amelie at age 6 opens the movie, and she steals our hearts with her innocence. My favorite part of the movie is when this 6 year old exacts revenge on her soccer-fan neighbor.

But a lot of imagination is used in this movie ... and it is all fun. Just a fun ride (for us) around Paris, France.