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Summary: magnifique!
Review: Funny, moving, intelligent, original... Amelie takes us on a trip through the streets of Paris, showing us, through her imagination, the real beauty and little pleasures of life.
The ultimate 'feel-good' movie a la francaise...
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Summary: Beautiful Amelie
Review: We went and saw it in the movies yesterday. We came out smiling inward and outward and filled with this happiness. What a movie, the right one for such bad times.Go and get enchanted!
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Summary: Makes you feel all warm.
Review: Before I urge you to rush out and revel in this romantic wisp of a movie, I must warn you that it is the kind of film that will make you either quake with bleary joy, or propel you out of the cinema with an ungovernable urge to smash things. If the words 'sugar', 'naive' or 'cute' are not in your vocabulary; if the mere sight of a bobbed gamine making eyes at you across the screen doesn't make your heart flutter; if scenes where lamps discuss their owner's love life with her paintings, or a young girl screams to save her suicidal goldfish don't enchant you, than, in the words of Gilbert and Sullivan, don't go. If, however, you feel your spiritual home is in France, than 'Amelie' might just make you fall in love again. it is for those who love Paris in sunshine or rain; who palpitate at the very thought of tree-lined Parisian streets and cafes; who have experienced haunting musical epiphanies at night in empty Metro stations; who have read Raymond Queneau novels; who rejoice in street markets, Renoir paintings, or the sight of horses running in the Tour de France. 'Amelie' is a romantic comedy for those who prefer the chase to the clinch. its heroine is almost a ghost, unloved and friendless as a child, who presides disembodied over strangers' lives, linking characters, punishing baddies and deciding destinies in ways that seem supernatural to them. She can only observe others from a distance and act accordingly - her own life remains emotionally dead. Of the various Queneau-like mysteries, red-herrings, non-sequiters and paper trails strewn throughout the film, the most pressing and emotionally charged is - will Amelie find love and rejoin the real world? The film is unashamedly nostalgic in its romantic vision of a vanished (never-was?) Paris, where musette is still played in sparse cafes, and funfairs and ghost trains become sites of erotic possibility. The CGI effects are used not for inhuman spectacle, but to do rich justice to individuals' inner lives. The idea of reworking the past; the comfort of myths, lies and delusions; the creation of one's own future - these are some of the film's themes, and they encompass characters, culture and place. As such, the film has been condemned as reactionary. It's probably sexist (although I identified with Amelie, rather than simply fancying her). It has reminded people of various reference points from the Oulipo writers to the early films of the French New Wave to Ally MacBeal. its most recent counterpart might be 'Magnolia', from the opening narrtion with its comic chaos theory, and its narrative about disparate people trying to connect, to the godlike force that contrives to do so. But it's much more treasurable than that. i loved this film. I loved the adorable Audrey Tautou, funny and smart, with huge melancholy eyes - a 21st century Audrey Hepburn. I loved the way the film felt like a cinematic novel without being literary. I loved the way the mystery plots took on emotional dimensions - the connection of clues to recover the past to restore happiness. I loved the colours, especially those rich reds; the wistful accordian music; the love of vignettes, photographs, chance, fantasy, dreams...
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Summary: Must See
Review: I saw this with a friend in Paris. While it was a little difficult to keep up with the full-speed French, this was truly a delightful film. Without giving anything away, Amelie is one of the sweetest women you'll ever see on screen --- most of the time. This is a charming portrait of a normal woman breaking out of the mundane, digging up her courage, and living -- really living.
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Summary: What a charming film!
Review: Beautiful cinematography, interesting characters, excellent dialogue, in short, a highly entertaining and imaginative piece of work. Best to skip the reviews and just go see the movie.
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Summary: SENSATIONAL!
Review: What a fantastic film! It has everything you would expect from a Jeunet film.....emense humour,heartfelt emotions,startling cinematography and a quirkiness of originality that is second to none. Its a MUST SEE film certainly one to own on video.....
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Summary: Smile, smile like you've never similed before!
Review: I saw this movie in France last summer and just loved it, from the plot to the dialogues to the beautiful filming done in one of the most magical places in Paris, and the music you must not forget how wonderfully it played into the enchantment. I would suggest seeing this movie over and over again. Leaving the theatre all I could do was smile from the inside out! This film encompasses beauty, happiness and love in a way that makes it impossible not to smile!
If you don't smile, then you must be an android!
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Summary: Best film of the decade to go
Review: I have seen "Amélie" (aka Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" in France) last summer. At last, a movie that can be compared to Frank Capra's movies. Just see it. See it dubbed or in French, you will see the best picture of your life. Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a master at work here. Everything seems to come out from one of his perfect dreams. Don't hesitate to go see it.
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Summary: Beautiful.
Review: Beautifully made. I watched it on a plane, as the other offerings looked less than interesting, I was hugely pleasantly surprised. There's a lot of hype surrounding the film in France, and therefore a lot of people were disappointed. Don't listen to the hype, this film is something of an art work, not a mega-blockbuster, and as such it is a masterpiece.
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Summary: Enchanting
Review: I was fortunate enough to attend the gala screening at the UGC Haymarket. This is the very best film I have ever had the pleasure of watching........simply Enchanting.
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