Amelie

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Summary: Very subtle, simple and humaine
Review: I would put this movie in same category with the Fellini's ingenious "Amarcord". This is a great piece of cinematographic art. Optimism, humor, greatness of the human soul and love, love, love... This is what you will take with you home.

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Summary: Amelie
Review: The movie is a riot! Very refreshing to see movie directing take a twist! the mood is light and perfect a crowd with an ever shortening attention span. The movie will connect on all levels of thinking. So there's no reason not to take someone who you think "won't get it".

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Summary: Amelie of Montmartre
Review: This is what the movie is called in France.
I too saw the movie on a flight back to the states from paris. I was so moved by this movie. Amelie is such a divine character and speaks to anyone who considers themselves somewhat out of the norm. She is an eccentric with a heart large enough to envelop everyone. :)

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Summary: Romance, humor, wisdowm, art, music...
Review: What a beautiful witty and absolutely breathtaking movie! I have't been so entertained, so elevated and so enthralled over a film in decades.

The basic plot of the movie has been recopunted by others, and so I won't go into it in detail here; essentially it's the story of a young girl looking for meaning in her life, who finds it in making others happy. But there's so much more than that; the plot is almost incidental to the magic.

Movies like Amelie show what really great films can accomplish while at the same time showing the paucity of imagination of most multi-million dollar Hollywood epics. There's so much detail, so much imagination and so much pure joy here that you'll find yourself constantly laughing out loud and crying with delight. The characters aren't the two dimensional fashion models you'll find in a "Titanic", but rich, full people, the sort you feel you might know, people whom you care about.

This is a film to be seen again and again, to be savored and to be shared. I don't own that many films, but this is one I simply must have for my collection.

Rating:
Summary: brilliantly inventive and entertaining
Review: Although it's about fifteen minutes too long, dragging slightly near the middle, I'd count Jean-Pierre Jeunet's uncharacteristic new film as a great triumph and one of the most enjoyable film experiences I've had in years.

Brilliantly inventive and beautifully shot, "Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain" was blissful entertainment. When critics call a film "charming" or "delightful," warning bells go off in my mind, but I can think of no film that those words more accurately describe. Some have referred to the film (either to praise it or to mock it) as sentimental. These people are mistaken. "Amelie" is happy, not sappy.

I think very few people can pull of a genuinely happy movie. This is it.

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Summary: Can Amelie be too sweet? too cute?
Review: The story would be quite dull without the
bright, young face of Audrey Tautou. But,
to my surprise, there were a number of very
clever special effects that enhance the romantic
comedy. It's schmalz, but diluted in a very
sympathetic main character and the ensemble
at the Deux Moulins cafe who surround her--
as good as the "Cheers" gang, but really with more
to say about human beings. They have some depth, pain a
and love.

The narration lasted a little too long, was
a bit intrusive, but reminded the audience,
along with glances and asides to the camera,
that this is a silly film, but a good silly
film. The love story is also light and fluffy,
but it develops in a very delightful way and
at a slow pace--like the grocer's helper,
Lucien, who likes to caress the fruit he offers
his customers. Parisian sites give the story the added dimension of French visual appeal. Perhaps Paris is the only suitable
setting for the film; the city is beautiful, but real,
softening the optimism just enough to make it palatable.

One thread that ties the story together is Amelie's
relationship with her father. The gnome's disappearance
and reappearance are special. It's likely a reference
to the "Front de la Liberation des nains de jardin" farce
that kept the French chuckling a few summers
ago. After traveling the world, though,(wink) the gnome returns. The scene in which Amelie
leads a blind man across the street while
describing to him all that was going on around
him, including enhancing with her spoken words the sounds and odors that make up a Paris street scene,tremendously uplifting!
But too sweet? Too sugar-coated? If so, I'll take it every time
If life is a capacino, this is the whipped cream.

Rating:
Summary: Fall In Love With Amelie....
Review: emma is reborn for the 21st century and her name is amelie.

director jean-pierre-jeunet does a variation on the classic jane austen character and recreates a marvel for the ages. amelie's life story is like a cartoon, and yet the cartoon is a believeable as real life. nothing happens quite the way you expect and the result is in the name of goodness. she is not gorgeous, but she is cute; her face is unforgettable; she is the patron saint of the outcasts, wonderfully left of center.

i'll try to explain this movie, but it will be an injustice. amelie appears to help those who need it: she finds a small box of toys under the sink in her bathroom, the night princess di dies. they belonged to a former tenant from 40 years ago. amelie gets the toys to the owner without being discovered. and when the man finds the box, he is in tears and reevaluates what's important in his life. amelie then goes on to play matchmaker for two jaded hearts who hang out at the resteraunt where she works as a waitress, and she becomes an avenging angel, fighting for a dim bulb employee at a vegetable stand who is constantly taunted by his boss. i'll just say she finds subtle ways to drive him mad.

amelie becomes all things to all people, but she is shy and introverted; she then meets a man, nino, who changes her life...

the " laughter " ratio in this movie is 5:1. that means i was laughing every five minutes. it is laugh out loud funny. it is also full of romance and passion. every character is memorable. the people in the two windmills resteraunt, remind me of the characters from the ice man cometh, only sober. the cinematography and the special effects are boffo. it's like living in another world for two hours. the term " life affirming " gets thrown around alot when it comes to movies like this, but this film deserves it. Audrey Tautou ( as amelie ) will undoubted be compared to another audrey ( hepburn ), for her pixieesque presence. but ms. tautou puts a stamp on the movie that is hers alone. fall in love with amelie

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Summary: The Best Movie of all times
Review: I'm coming from Germany an i think, Amelie is one of the best movies of all times. It's such a lovely story, such a lovely Audrey Tautou (goddes), no cheating, no tricks, just pure feelings and the prettiest pictures I've ever seen, a wonder banned on zelluloid. Please please enjoy this movie!! Jean Paul Jeunet, the Guy that made "Alien -Resurrection" turned 100% and now he's a good one!! Welcome Academy Awards! btw. i'm male, not gay- so guys this is something for you too (especially)!!

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful!
Review: I saw the movie on a flight back from Paris to the States. After it ended, I was totally entranced. It is the best movie I have seen in a long time. If you like foreign films, you will love it. Guaranteed.

Rating:
Summary: Perilously good
Review: I found this film to be so good that it was almost unwatchable. The sheer delight, sadness, joy, elation, humour and down-right fantastic entertainment value of this film is overwhelming. Audrey Tautou's performance is breath-taking, and she will steal your heart as much as any fine performances in the history of cinema will have done before.

It's like a re-birth for your faith in cinema. If you feel that cinema is a dying art, this will prove it's still alive and kicking. If you believe cinema is alive and kicking, you won't know how hard until you see this.

The story is simple, but perfect - a love story set against the most ridiculous and charming of obstacles. The innocence of this movie shines through with Amelie's bashful and wonderful pursuit of her 'Love At First Sight', her whimsical and definitely child-like take on anything that we may consider routine or tradition, and the mockery of every day life is so funny that it could never, ever be offensive, even to the most hardened creature of routine.

If you liked Delicatessen, you will simply adore this. If you just like films that make you feel alive, or happy, or joyful or all of the above, watch this film and be amazed.