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Summary: WILL LEAVE YOU A GOOD TASTE IN YOUR MOUTH!
Review: What a great movie this is! the first time I saw it I was speechless, with a great feeling inside, this movie is about a outsider that has been alienated from society just for circumstances, Amelie likes to help people, but would she find love herself?, oh, this is great!, you should buy it!, it's worth the money, fantasy, suspense, love, all in one, and deliciously talk in french!, I love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Great movie
Review: This is a great foreign film, probably my second favorite (First being Run Lola Run) Amelie is absolutely adorable! You can watch it with english audio also so that you don't have to watch the movie and read the subtitles at the same time. worth watching.
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Summary: One of my new all time favorites!
Review: Amelie is quite possibly the most feel good movie ever to be made, I only wish I new French so that I didn't have to read the subtitles. I've seen some bad reviews on this site that compared Amelie's cat and mouse game with Nino with the antics of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fud. Maybe they missed the begining of the movie or decided that reading the subtitles was not important to understand what was happening. Amelie's inability to confront Nino can easily be explained by her childhood and it's lack of social contact. Simply put, this is a beautiful film full of imagination that will leave you with a smile on your face. If you can get over the fact that you have to read subtitles for the 2 hours that this film spans then this is a must see. Please watch it twice, read the subtitles the first time so that you know what is going on, the second time pay more attention to Amelie and the wonderful performance that Audrey Tautou gives. I guarentee that you'll be hooked as well!
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Summary: totally jeunet
Review: totally unlike any of jeunet's previous work but if you look closely you'll see that no one else could've done it. this film never fails to bring a smile to my face, from the use of colors to the quirky characters and of course the whimsical storyline. one film to watch over and over, even with the sound off and music playing. one mistake in the subtitles tho, when amelie returns nino's photo album and calls him on the phone, she says, "page cinquant-et-un." this is translated as "page street" but the correct translation is actually "page 51." bleh - but i'm nitpicking.
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Summary: A well made film
Review: I found this film witty and intelligent, encapsulating French culture and humour. It shows the beauty and joy that can be found in helping others, as well as the benefits of courage and coming out of your shell. It's a nice break from typical hollywood films. A film is not a bad film because it fails promote American idealism. I think it's a great film, even if it doesn't try to capture the audience by big explosions, sexy women or popular culture.
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Summary: Is it almost over yet?
Review: That's what I kept thinking, almost from the beginning, of this weird movie. It's not the subtitles--I loved "Life is Beautiful." There was something slightly depressing about the scenery and the dysfunctional people. (I do think that Audrey Tautou is pretty adorable, however.) I know it's supposed to be "arty," but I just found it too difficult to follow--I was confused the entire movie. Maybe I need to watch it again, but I just can't put myself through that.
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Summary: Cold and cruel culture
Review: My compliments to poiugtrewq846 for having the guts to post an unpopular, yet intelligent, hilarious view of this overhyped movie. Hopefully it'll inspire others (like myself) to point out the many things NOT so "enchanting" about Amelie.Okay, here's a different approach to analyzing this movie. Let's pretend that Amelie was made as an American movie, by American filmmakers with American stars. We'd have someone like Meg Ryan starring, working hard at being a grinning, "eternally cute" thirty-something. We'd be rolling our eyes and demanding that she "grow up," wouldn't we? What about all the excessive narration in this film, telling us exactly what Amelie feels and thinks every moment. Wouldn't we be criticizing an American director and screenwriter for this, and wondering why the actors couldn't "act out" their feelings WITH each other? What about Amelie's "good Samaritan" acts? Don't her actions, in our culture, represent unwarranted (and sometimes illegal) interference with other people's lives? Why should Amelie regard herself as so much more righteous than most others? Doesn't her pursuit of Nino signify outright stalking? Without the Montmarte scenery and color, wouldn't we be expressing boredom at Amelie's endless cat-and-mouse games? Wouldn't her act of setting up a co-worker with a totally phychotic diner regular, as well as her relentlessly mean-spirited, vindictive acts against the grocer be seen as outright cruelty in the U.S., and more at home in a David Spade movie? What if our American directors featured two scarcely defined lovebirds (only pointing out, continuously, that they're both "quirky"), and once they meet up, their only inclination is to jump in bed together? (Sure beats warmth and communication for the French, doesn't it?) Obviously, this "climax" would be dismissed as poor writing and lame directorial effort. And how would we judge a love interest as self-absorbed and indifferent as Nino (not to mention his profession in the porn industry), as portrayed by Mathieu Kossovitz, sleepwalking through the part? If played here by, say, Keanu Reeves, he'd be decried as "wooden" and "ineffectual," wouldn't he? (And, in actuality, even Reeves is capable of emoting more romantic sentiment than Kossovitz, which is certainly saying something). But warmth has never been a strong point in French films (watch the so-called "classic," Breathless, and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about). Yet, somehow, BECAUSE these films are French, we excuse them for using their bag of tricks to tiptoe around their lack of warmth -- fancy cinematography, romanticized views of the French language and geography, pointless narration, "eccentric" (read: repugnant) characters, and unnecessarily cruel humor. NO American filmmaker or actor could present such qualities in their movies without total derision. Who would've believed that Americans could ever view the French through rose-colored glasses. Yet, Amelie proves that it CAN happen.
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Summary: Amelie' a cute, sort of twisted, nice movie
Review: While not necessarily for underage viewers, Amelie is a fun and sort of twisted refreshing type of film. It is in French with English subtitles, but I hardly noticed because it is such a great film. It's cute and Amelie' is a do-gooder who has a nice openness to her while still remaining mysterious to the people she does good for. It's one of my favorite movies.
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Summary: Farkin awesome!!!
Review: This is a hilarious, yet sweet movie that I would recommend for anyone, French speaking or not. After the first 10 minutes, one forgets that there are subtitles. Not to be missed!
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Summary: Ponderous cartoonish antics performed by infantile imp
Review: At what specific age should my pubescent development have been stopped short for me to adequately enjoy this film? Can it be that I, as an adult, am meant to be charmed by the hijinks of a moron who interfers with any lives she has suddenly taken it into her peabrain to manipulate? Are we meant to hope that our lives were as storybook-colorful as those in the film who fall prey to her nearly terrifying in its ignorance meddling? The asinine antics this babytalking idiot performs, such as with the grocer whom she so easily edges toward insanity, are hijacked from the world of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. And her own preposterous ploys to arrange it so that she is left all but sucking her thumb and pining for her--we suspect--slightly less retarded would-be beau while he emotionally snaps his fingers at just missing her and is left holding something that gives the time for their next annoyingly cute and predictably unconsummating rendezvous are ponderous, so ponderous. And yet apparently such drivel will never fail to captivate the herd.
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