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It's all about what Jean-Pierre Jeunet likes and dislikes. He's turned himself into a mediocre-looking girl with big impressive eyes and quite sexy lips, who looks better with that particular hairdo, to express some of his phantasies. Imagine same movie with Amelie replaced by Amello. Amelie is kind of a petit voleur, a con artist of little things mistakenly called love? This could easily be mistaken for a TV serial, or a music video, void of music. The movie is so confusing, yet Amelie's heart pumps so hard and it shows, even to the least aware, as if the rest of the movie does not matter, suddenly it becomes obvious - she's in love. Sketches of an artist scattered on the floor across a 7 bedroom apartment, including the bathroom and the basement storage cell. Why not shatter the movie into a thousand and one pieces (just like those torn-apart photos) and try selling as individual posters perhaps? Would probably make a great photography album called: "Delicious. Lost. Amelie". "Delicatessen" was great; "The City of Lost Children" was not so great to creepy, even slightly pedophilic; "Amelie" is a waste of time for a great deal of the not necessarily unintelligent people. For those who will be searching for a matching music for this music video, I can suggest, try "Enigma" or something like that; perhaps you can create a youtube masterpiece by adding music to this movi(e)deo sans musique. It does feel like a short music video after all the patiently watching thing is over. Yet those, who are under influence of some substance, could as well enjoy it even without music... Reading one-star reviews before purchasing a movie sure helps a lot in most cases. I think I'm gonna (try to) sell it (back) on Amazon.com. No... but wait, there was one good delicatessenique scene... the fuque in de toilettes, you know what i mean...
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One of the best movies! Awesome story, great acting, great actors. Cinematography A+, If you don't like this movie, something is wrong with you. I'm sorry, but that's just the truth.
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Amelie: (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain): 6 out of 10: Sweet, light and sometimes a little irritating; this strangely adult fable starts out very strong and sinks under the weight of it's too cute for words protagonist and her self made predicament. Amelie is a strange bird indeed. She seems initially one of those wonderfully original creations but as time in the movie marches on it becomes obvious. She is a twelve-year-old girl in a woman's body.
Yup she has silly crushes plays silly pranks and a vivid imagination. In fact one could very much see her being played by a twelve year old. This would work perfectly if the movie wasn't so jarringly adult in other ways. (Amelie's quest works in a porn shop, people having hook-up sex in a daytime café)
It is more of a tone issue than any objection to adult content. (As a glance at most of my other reviews will testify.) Also like most twelve-year olds Amelie pulls pranks and games a little too long. (After the 2-hour mark or so I was practically screaming at the screen to get on with it)
Now don't get me wrong the first hour or so is one of the most delightful screen experiences. I loved the traveling gnome (which started a fad that lives on today) and liked the obsessive tape recording man in café.
It also shows a true fantasy version of Paris like You've You Mail's version of New York. In fact when Amelie is helping others rather than on her own quest the movie seems to move briskly and with purpose.
It is only in her pursuit of love that Amelie fails as both a person and a movie. Just like most twelve-year-old girls.
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This is an excellent, light hearted movie. I bought it for my daughter and it is one of her favorites.Amelie
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I rarely watch something that I can say is utterly unique. Amelie is. To begin with, it's a lovely movie, visually. But what's more, it appeals to the sarcastic, embittered adult's humor while maintaining such a beautiful childlike innocence of character and plot line. Amelie is a whimsical, quiet girl, who likes to toy with those who are a part of the everyday world that she seems only to watch, never to quite fit in to. This movie awakened in me a sensation I often forget, but as a writer, need so desperately to cling to.
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