Amelie
Amelie
Member's Rating
  • Currently 4/5} Stars.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Rate this movie

0 1 2 3 4 5

Rent this DVD

Synopsis

Jean-Pierre Jeunet creates a world of color, movement, romance and whimsy in a film that became a sensation in France and charmed audiences around the world. Audrey Tautou is delightful as a spirited waitress determined to help those around her find love and happiness, although her own romantic adventure proves to be a challenging one. Light as a feather, Amelie presents an idealized Paris that was shot on location, but which, through visual effect and eye-catching art direction, has the fantasized look of a Hollywood soundstage. Actor-director Mathieu Kassovitz co-stars as Amelie's love interest. A Cesar Award-winner for Best Film, Director, Music and Production Design.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet---France/Germany---2001---122 mins.

Reviews of 'Amelie'

Write Your Own Online Review
1 Customer Review  |  See All Customer Reviews

Most Recent Reviews
Here is a list of the most recently submitted reviews for this movie.

  • Currently 1/5 Stars.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  | Doug#8

The cartoonish protagonist has the instincts and power of the guardian angel Clarence in It's a Wonderful Life, but without his wisdom and restraint. We watch her break into homes, mail fraudulent letters, arrange sexual trysts, and work fake miracles all in the name of helping others. The idea, it seems, is that you can't really help others to face reality, you can only help by having them live according to pleasing falsehoods. But is our angel motivated by a desire to help others or more so by the pleasure she derives from pulling off her pranks? Her actual problem is internal, which nags her as she minutely and irritatingly arranges for her own happiness. Never fear, this is a cartoon, no pain is real, and every character (but one) is a chump who can be had. Unlike Austen's Emma, who gets her comeuppance for meddling, this puppeteer is propped up by her never-ending success. (In a world of no glitches, one wonders why any of the characters have any problems for her to solve.) I suspect that Amelie is a stand- in for the film director, who, with a great deal of artifice, can persuade a gullible audience of anything. In this way the film seems to present itself as a kind of white lie, or even as a random act of "kindness."

I found this review: