Amelie
by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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Actor: Audrey Tautou, Lorella Cravotta, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Serge MerlinDirector: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Brand: TAUTOU,AUDREY
Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel
Writer: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Producer: Arne Meerkamp van Embden
Producer: Claudie Ossard
Producer: Helmut Breuer
Producer: Jean-Marc Deschamps
Writer: Guillaume Laurant
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-07-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Amelie
DVD Review: fun
Summary: 5 Stars
this is a very whimsical and fun movie. It's just good stuff. It really got me into Yann Tiersen (composer for the movie) too, check out his stuff if you haven't!DVD Review: Good international movie
Summary: 4 Stars
I was really happy with this movie. I showed it for an international movie night and the cinematography was different then what is seen in American movies and I really like that. DVD Review: Wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. If you want a movie that will make you smile and leave insipred to make the world a better place, this is the one to watch.DVD Review: "An urge to help mankind comes over her."
Summary: 5 Stars
This delightful French confection, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and co-written by Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant, is the story of Am?lie Poulain, the product of a hilariously dysfunctional marriage. Her father is an obsessive-compulsive doctor and her mother is a nervous and twitchy schoolteacher. As a result, Am?lie grows up isolated from her peers, and has a strong tendency to fantasize. When she finally leaves home, she takes a job as a waitress and settles in Montmarte, in northern Paris. There, she meets a host of eccentric characters whose lives become intertwined with hers in fascinating ways.
This film is original, irresistibly charming, beautifully photographed, and laugh-out-loud funny. Jeunet's cast is marvelous, and Audrey Tautou is perfect in the title role. Her waif-like, large-eyed stare takes in everything and everyone around her, but she always remains on the fringes of life. One evening, she finds a buried treasure that a little boy hid in her apartment forty years earlier. She suddenly makes a life-altering decision to help others anonymously. Am?lie subsequently gets involved with an aged shut-in, a mean-spirited greengrocer, a lonely woman abandoned by her philandering husband, and a young man with an extremely strange hobby. She even tries her hand at bringing together an uproariously quirky couple.
Jeunet fills the screen with unexpected sight-gags that, along with the droll dialogue, amuse us as we shake our heads, wondering how the screenwriters came up with this unusual story. Yet for all its eccentricity, "Am?lie" explores universal and timeless themes. The lonely and the misunderstood among us need and deserve our compassion; without love, a human being withers away; and in our harsh, dog-eat-dog world "times are hard for dreamers."
DVD Review: 2 stars out of 4
Summary: 3 Stars
The Bottom Line:
An overrated and inexplicably-beloved film that tries to hide the fact that it's a fundamentally ordinary movie (odd but lovable couple kept apart by contrivances until the final scene) behind layers of sugary schmaltz, watching Amelie is the cinematic equivalent of eating cotton candy till you're stuffed.
Description of Amelie
Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay, this magical comedy earned overwhelming acclaim nationwide! A painfully shy waitress working at a tiny Paris cafe, Am?lie makes a surprising discovery and sees her life drastically changed for the better! From then on, Am?lie dedicates herself to helping others find happiness ... in the most delightfully unexpected way! But will she have the courage to do for herself what she has done for others?Perhaps the most charming movie of all time, Am?lie is certainly one of the top 10. The title character (the bashful and impish Audrey Tautou) is a single waitress who decides to help other lonely people fix their lives. Her widowed father yearns to travel but won't, so to inspire the old man she sends his garden gnome on a tour of the world; with whispered gossip, she brings together two cranky regulars at her caf?; she reverses the doorknobs and reprograms the speed dial of a grocer who's mean to his assistant. Gradually she realizes her own life needs fixing, and a chance meeting leads to her most elaborate stratagem of all. This is a deeply wonderful movie, an illuminating mix of magic and pragmatism. Fans of the director's previous films (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children) will not be disappointed; newcomers will be delighted. --Bret Fetzer
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