Amelie (2001)

12 Ratings: 4.5

Art House & International and Drama movie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Perhaps the most charming movie of all time,Amélieis 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 … see full wiki

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Cast: Mathieu Kassovitz, Audrey Tautou, Rufus, Serge Merlin, Lorella Cravotta

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Genre: Foreign

Release Date: April 25, 2001

MPAA Rating: R

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review by PharoahsWail. October 18, 2004

I like funny and touching. I don't like poop.

What an enchanting little movie this is! Amelie is almost a genre unto itself. Not content to just be a funny movie, or a movie about the thrill of new love, it combines both and mixes in a heaping helping of strangeness and random meaningless events to pull together a lovely picture of life as it really can be. It's harnessing all the meaningless little things of daily life into the swirling coherence of your life. In the big picture, I guess Amelie could be considered a … more

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review by Sheila. January 15, 2004

AMELIE - A Gem Of a Movie with a Gem of An Actor In Tautou

Amelie is a wonderful allegorical story with breathtaking cinematography. This is a wonderful ensemble cast with strong character development throughout. This is a movie that you hate to see end while watching just like reading a great book and finding yourself at the end and thinking "now what?"... Audrey Tautou is MESMERIZING without saying a word. Her facial/body movements are haunting and she develops an "otherworldly/angelic" character in Amelie. The two disc DVD with featurettes are a wonderful … more

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review by Tom_Knapp. January 27, 2003

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Amelie Poulain is a Parisian eccentic.

Through a variety of tiny, selfless acts, Amelie touches the people around her, changing their lives in small, yet immeasurably vast ways. She reconnects a man with his childhood. She sparks passion between two lonely people. She brings closure to a mourning woman through a voice from the past. She subtly and deliciously avenges the abuses a mean-spirited employer heaps on a mentally slow but well-meaning assistant. And she sends her own father around the world through the eyes of a simple garden … more

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