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Summary: Enter Imagination
Review: Through her eyes and imagination, the audience gets a wonderfully creative view into the minds and lives of anyone Amelie came across in her would-be normal everyday life. All their likes, dislikes and routines exposed, opening our eyes to our own quirky eccentricity.
She decides to stir things up a bit with a "loventure" where she plays an exciting and mysterious voyeur game throughout the city with one man she recognizes from her past.
Taking an unusual vigilante approach to a wrongdoer in her neighborhood, we're thrown into humorous scenes of confusion as he thinks he's going simply mad.
Great reflection is shared with a fragile neighbor and she is able to grow and blossom thanks to his bending an ear. His reward comes in glimpses of an unknown world.
With splashes of personification, inanimate objects add to this splendid flick with their opinions and wonder.
A must see. And a must see again if you had to read subtitles and didn't get a chance to take in all of the vivid imagery and detail in the set design and cityscapes.
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Summary: Amelie
Review: I simply love everything about this film. Especially the fantastique cinematography and story. The use of special effects are subtle yet effective and the movie has its original share of humour, well french humour that is, but I can relate to them. Especially about cest la vie. I think we should pursue life to the fullest and not live in a what if state?Well done!
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Summary: Loved it.
Review: This movie is the most touching, playful, quirky movie that I have ever seen. I will immediately buy the DVD as soon as it is released- I already have the soundtrack. The characters are so relatable, and the direction under Jean-Pierre Jeunet takes this film to amazing levels of love, compassion, humour, and charm. An absolutely amazing film!
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Summary: Quirky, Fun, a bit Romantic
Review: Amelie is a charming film about a young girl, a bit starved for emotional attention who realizes one day bringing happiness into others lives unexpectedly is both rewarding and allows her to focus her attention away from her own life. She goes about doing good deeds with fun and entertaining results until a glimps or two of the same man sets up the situation where she might finally start thinking about what it is SHE wants out of life. Wonderful, funny, enjoyable.
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Summary: An instant classic.
Review: Amelie (Audrey Tautou) is looking for love, she`s a beautiful unique young woman with the heart of gold and maybe she perhaps looking for the meaning of life in general. We see her as a young girl, when she lost her mother and her father thinks, she has heart problems. Now as a young woman, she`s a waitress in centrail Paris. She interacts curiously with her neighbors and costumers, as well as a mysterious Photomation (Mathieu Kassovitz), an image collector and one of his even more mysterious photo subjects. Little by Little, Amelie realizes that the way to happiness (and yet more subtle humor) requires here to take her own initiative and reach out to others. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Alien Resurrection, The City of the Lost Children) shows visual style and plot to make this one of the most beautiful films of 2001 and also one of the year`s best films. Beautiful Performance by Tautou and also Fine Performances by Kassovitz, Rufus, Dominique Pinon and Maurice Benichou. 5 Oscar Nominations-Including:Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Sound and Best Original Screenplay. The Film has Win Four Casar Awards including:Best Director, Best Film, Best Music and Best Production Design. It was also Nominated for Best Actress:Audrey Tautou, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Supporting Actor:Jamel Debbouze also actor:Refus, Best Supporting Actress:Isabelle Nanty and Best Original Screenplay. The film also Win for the Independent Spirit Awards for Best Foreign Film. Do Not Miss This Instant Classic. Written by Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Super 35. Grade:A+.
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Summary: Superlatives fail me!
Review: A sweet, romantic comedy with a very creative use of special effects (not usually found in such films). One of those movies where you leave feeling good. There is even a small mystery involved with a perfect solution. Amelie decides to help people change their lives without them knowing it, but forgets about her own. Until she meets a man at a photo booth and... But that would be giving it away. And one of the pleasures I got from this film was that I knew almost nothing about it going in (other than it was receiving critical and audience acclaim). That is a rarity in today's world where trailers tell you the whole story before you've even decided you want to see the 'darn' thing. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is: Go see it! Now!
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Summary: Fun
Review: "Amelie" is a refreshing film that you will have fun watching. It is certainly different from the average Hollywood picture! In visually playful style, it tells the story (in French, with subtitles) of a dreamy, lonely woman who seeks to help the other oddballs she is acquainted with to find love and joy, but has a hard time helping herself. The cinematography is delightful and the the characters are amusing, although I did feel that the movie was a little self-conscious in giving each one of them an absurd eccentricity (copying the same Renoir over and over, collecting photo booth rejects, etc.) I also felt that although the film had a happy ending for some of the characters, it left a lot of the other ones hanging. A friend told me that was more realistic than resolving everything, but there is nothing realistic about this film, either in style or content. Fans of this French director will think this his finest, most accessible work. Newcomers will enjoy the weird whimsy of this colorful thing, if they can stand to look at Amelie's face smirking on the film advertisements.
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Summary: Warmed My Heart
Review: Amelie is the sweetest, funniest, most uplifting movie I have seen in a while. It's been ages since I've laughed uncontrollably at a movie, and this one did it. If I had more than two thumbs, they'd all be up. Go see it when you need to feel better about the world.
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Summary: Wacky and Wonderful
Review: Wow-those french really know how to make movies. I saw this one at the Paris Theatre in NYC and it was fabulous. The plot is a bit wacky and insane but the outcome is heartwarming and wonderful. A simple, young, brilliant girl in many ways, Amelie knows just enough how to meddle in the lives of others to make a difference, and all for the better. The challenge for her, of course, is to be able to help herself. She seems really good at running away until the end-alas,a nice ending. Oh, and the scenes with the gnome are an absolute scream!
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Summary: GREAT MOVIE
Review: I absolutely love this movie. One of the best movies I've ever seen. "Amelie" delivers all what you expect from a "great movie".
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