Recent Reviews for Amelie (Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)
Recent Reviews
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MCT:July 24, 2008most of her movies are dragging...it's fine to watch, the drawback for the nonspeaking french people is that it's in french...but it's nice that she hooked up a lot of people and that she has one for herself too
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MCT:July 23, 2008
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"Amélie:[to blind man]
Let me help you. Step down. Here we go! The drum major's widow! She's worn his coat since the day he died. The horse's head has lost an ear! That's the florist laughing. He has crinkly eyes. In the bakery window, lollipops. Smell that! They're giving out melon slices! Sugarplum, ice cream! We're passing the park butcher. Ham, 79 francs. Spareribs, 45! Now the cheese shop. Picadors are 12.90. Cabecaus 23.50. A baby's watching a dog that's watching the chickens. Now we're at the kiosk by the metro. I'll leave you here. Bye!
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Maybe The Best French Film Since Leon The Professional.
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MCT:July 23, 2008
A sweet and quirky little French film.
Amelie is a very interesting and loveable character who wants to do good for people. Audrey Tautou played her very well. I also loved her hairstyle!
Besides all that, it is still an overrated film. I was expecting much more from it. -
MCT:July 21, 2008One of those movies that I loved in High School, and now see that it is not something I'm into at all. Maybe if I was still into Twee Pop music...
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MCT:July 20, 2008
Absolutely love it! Cute, charming, romantic, and trčs parfait! I love it. This is probably the best French movie ever. And French cinema is just great.
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MCT:July 19, 2008
So cute!! Jean-Pierre amazed masses, myself included, with this one! Cutely funny as well =P.
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MCT:July 17, 2008
Witty, funny, nutty and totally adorable. Impossible not to love it. Audrey Tautou is a revalation in it. Such a great film - Love it.
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MCT:July 12, 2008
Hypochondriac tobacconists, tyrannical grocers, kindly strippers, failed writers, all human life is here thanks to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's stock company of character actors. With so many colourful eccentrics and unlikely subplots, it's perhaps inevitable that "Amélie" is episodic and fractured. But this is a small price to pay for a film guaran-fucking-teed to put a smile on your face.
Probably the most beautiful LOOKING film ever made. The colors are intricate and bright, giving the romanticized setting and grandiose look.
Great screenplay, great directing, great cinematography. -
MCT:July 11, 2008
So whimsical, and fun... his film is brilliantly done - interesting characters and visually beautiful. Just makes you smile.
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MCT:July 10, 2008
my favorite movie! soo cute. beautiful colors, photography, soundtrack, every little thing is great in this movie!
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MCT:July 10, 2008Narrator: "Nino is late. Amelie can only see two explanations. 1 - he didn't get the photo. 2 - before he could assemble it, a gang of bank robbers took him hostage. The cops gave chase. They got away... but he caused a crash. When he came to, he'd lost his memory. An ex-con picked him up, mistook him for a fugitive, and shipped him to Istanbul. There he met some Afghan raiders who too him to steal some Russian warheads. But their truck hit a mine in Tajikistan. He survived, took to the hills, and became a Mujaheddin. Amelie refuses to get upset for a guy who'll eat borscht all his life in a hat like a tea cozy."
Misdiagnosed with a heart condition by her doctor father, Amelie (Audrey Tautou) grows up home-schooled, sheltered, and with an overactive imagination. At 23, she is a waitress in Paris, shyly watching the world go by until she happens upon a box of treasured mementos, long-hidden in the wall of her apartment. Vowing to find the owner and do good deeds, Amelie fills her days with matchmaking, justifiable prank-pulling, and, ultimately, the search for an amour of her own. Amelie is a fairy tale. Amelie is not a real person but rather a container for the emotions and romantic hopes of the viewer. Her regular asides to the camera she co-narrates her story with an unseen André Dussollier, rope us in to the action, and implicate us in her thoughts, feelings and actions. Tautou expresses equal parts imaginative intelligence and cloistered innocence, competing attributes of a character with an artist's eye, but paralyzed by shyness. Of note is Tautou's brilliant use of her eyes, which she employs like a silent film actress along with her movements, posture, tilt of head to express worlds of subtext. The other performances are excellent, with much life added by Jeunet regulars Dominique Pinon, Rufus, and Serge Merlin who play Joseph, the hyper-jealous former lover of one of Amélie's coworkers, Amélie's father, and the Glass Man, her fragile-boned painter neighbor as well as Yolande Moreau as Amélie's scorned and despondent concierge. Amélie is a sweet, poignant, and often hilarious film from one of France's most eccentric directors. -
MCT:July 9, 2008
One of the best films ever made! I feel so happy after I watch this movie. Amelie is such an enjoyable, quirky character. The filming is absolutely beautiful, with interesting angles and bright, vivid colors. I wish more films were made this way.
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MCT:July 7, 2008AWESOME!
reality mix up with fantasy! this movie is really great i enjoy it a lot!
the tragic story of this girl whom spend her all chilhood alone, losse her mother being little and is in the search of love and helping others! -
MCT:July 7, 2008
cute, quirky, eccentric art, this realy is more than just a movie. Only Tautou could play a character as loveable as Amelie and Nino was brilliant, by far my favourite. This Film is about the little things like the way each character is introduced with likes and dislikes, the fast paced shots of amelie and nino riding around together and even the titles kept me watching right to the very end.
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MCT:July 4, 2008
One person can change your life forever.
We always know that French has this unique taste of making movies, and probably the best taste all of over the world. French movies are not for everybody's consumption, but for they who find it interesting, French movies can be their favorites of all-time. And apparently ME, MYSELF, seems like to be one of them.
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain is a UNIQUE movie about a girl named Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) who works as a waitress and lives in Montmartre, and the movie tells us how Amélie helped people through their lives and how she found her true love. The whole movie idea is IMAGINATIVE, like no other movie offers. The quirky way of capturing the images is the most influential and powerful aspect of Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain. The cinematography was beautiful, and the character Amélie was beautifully played by the actress, Audrey Tautou, brought Amélie to be a realistic girl in a very imaginative and artistic movie. And there's more than just a beautiful movie, this is a movie with clever dialogs and described well with a clever narrative way.
End words, Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain is really fabulous and this is a movie that somehow, we haven't seen in a long time. And somehow, we find this move is a beauty with brain. A FRENCH CLASSIC.
Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's.
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MCT:July 4, 2008
Loved everything about her. Especially getting back at a supermarket owner who treats the employee rudely with bad comments.
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MCT:July 2, 2008
This movie is soooooooo amazing! I can't find words to describe how much I loved this movie, I must watch again before I write a review!
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MCT:July 2, 2008
I"m proud of this french film !
Art direction : Oh my God
The acting : couldn't be better
The story line : amazing
but most of all it reprensents paris and her soul ! -
MCT:June 30, 2008
''Amélie has a strange feeling of absolute harmony. It's a perfect moment. A soft light, a scent in the air, the quiet murmur of the city. A surge of love, an urge to help mankind overcomes her.''
One person can change your life forever. Amélie is one of these people, and this is her story...
Audrey Tautou: Amélie Poulain
Amélie is the best French film since Love me if you Dare that I have ever had the pleasure of watching.
Artistic, imaginative, visual and extremely clever are but a few ways to describe Amélie.
So what's is Amélie? What is it about I hear you cry?!
Well the answer is simple, it's the gorgeous tale of Amélie Poulain and her dreamy wondrous life. I could certainly relate to her magical, colourful imagination.
Audrey Tautou as Amélie makes the role her own while film maker Jean-Pierre Jeunet hits the nail on the head spinning and weaving one of the best films to come from France I've ever had to have the luxury of seeing and beholding.
I mean the music blends with the colourful imagery much like Amélie's old friend Raymond's artwork. Which brings me to the characters in the film wonderfully fleshed out while we are treated also to some breath taking sequences.
As a director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet has a unique perspective. He seems to make great use of colour, some would assume then to be unnecessary extremes, but for myself it gives Amélie a glossy visual look, whatever the weather's like in the film.
Also he tends to to zoom about with his cameras but again this adds to the way the film sucks you into its own little bizarre world, just as Amelie draws Nico into her heart without them actually meeting.
A few nice special effects polish it off, and there are a few little details that you probably won't see the first couple of times.
It's hard to translate into words how much I loved Amélie .
Like being next to a Monet, or a Da Vinci, watching as he effortlessly splashes vibrant colours and shades across his canvas.
I had this strange but fantastic feeling of being inside the mind of Amélie, seeing so much in the dazzling imagination she viewed life with, and wanting to stay with her much longer than the two hour duration of Amélie.
It was just so refreshing to watch a movie where your fantasy realms are realized in fantastic detail.
Amélie is simply a story of imagination, of love, of dreams, of life.
What other movie offers a gnome on holiday, a photo booth mystery, a bizarre childhood, a clever trail to reclaim an album...none I tell you! This Amélie truly is a masterpiece and I cannot stress it enough.
And what's most wonderful of all, I'm still smiling from the experience.''Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's.'' -
MCT:June 29, 2008
The most charming moive I've seen in a long time. Like Amelie's fondness for the little pleasures in life, it's the little things that make this so much more joyful to watch. Audrey Tatou is also amazing and Im so glad she was cast in it. As is everyone else actually. The artist guy reminds me of a french version of Kieth Richards. How odd.
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MCT:June 28, 2008
Amelie is an excellent movie,with a brilliant script and brilliant actors.There's something different about this movie, something magical. Every atmosphere in this movie makes you feel warm. Everything is colourful, including the people.You can't help but fall in love with it.It's a movie that suits everyone... one of those movies you just must see more than once.
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MCT:June 27, 2008
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain is an amazing, dream-like film. With gorgeous visuals, vibrant colors, remarkable cinematography and direction and a great script, Amélie is a wonderful story brought to us by the very talented Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Audrey Tautou plays the title role perfectly, in a truly enchanting performance. Jamel Debbouze, Isabelle Nanty and the score by Yann Tiersen are the other shining stars of this film. Gets a little slower towards the end, where it's mostly silent.
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MCT:June 27, 2008
One of those heartwarming and amazing films, that it's almost impossible not to enjoy. This movie kicked off the 21st century. The writing, direction, music, performances, costumes, colors, everything is flawless. A film for everyone.
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MCT:June 25, 2008
This is a very good film. This film reminded me alot of La Vie En Rose even though it is a completely different genre. I am not really THAT keen on French films. I do like Chinese-Japanese films though. I wouldnt call it a classic masterpiece.
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MCT:June 24, 2008
Juvenile. Impractical. Unhealthy. Substitutes sappiness and Audrey Tautou's attractiveness for real substance. Doesn't gain many points for being in French either. Slightly amusing and vaguely interesting.
