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Amelie | 
| Studio: Alliance (Universal)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  470 reviews
Sales Rank: 470
Format: Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
UPC: 065935142249
EAN: 0065935142249
ASIN: B000068QKT
Release Date: January 14, 2003
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From Amazon.com
Perhaps the most charming movie of all time, iAmelie/i 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 cafe; 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 (iDelicatessen/i, iThe City of Lost Children/i) will not be disappointed; newcomers will be delighted. i--Bret Fetzer/i
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Amelie Poulain a une idee fixe en tete : rendre les gens heureux. De ses voisins a ses collegues et clients du petit cafe de Montmartre ou elle est serveuse, tout le monde voit un jour sa vie bouleversee par cette jeune fille malicieuse, jusqu'au moment ou elle tombe amoureuse d'un employe de sex-shop, collectionneur de photomatons abandonnes. Mais dans l'univers d'Amelie, rien n'est simple. Une image toujours aussi eblouissante, a laquelle Jean-Pierre Jeunet nous avait pourtant habitues, qui sert un recit magique et revigorant, telle est la trame d'un film surprenant, au succes planetaire, un raz de maree qui n'en finit pas de deverser bonheur et amour avec, en toile de fond, un Paris reve, un Montmartre ideal habite d'acteurs judicieusement employes, d'Audrey Tautou a Mathieu Kassovitz en passant par l'emouvant Jamel Debbouze ou le fidele Dominique Pinon. Un grand DVD pour un grand film, succes surprise de l'annee 2001. I--David Rault/I
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 Charming and delicious hearty movie December 16, 2007
Aeneas
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie really touches the heart. It is hard not to walk away with a smile on your face. No wonder it was nominated for 5 Academy Awards. It is a romance but also a comedy and so much more. The introduction to the key character is unique and that playfulness continues throughout the movie. Likewise the musical score is delightful and very French and compliments the movie nicely. So yes, go out and rent this movie. You won't be disappointed.
 Personally, I prefer "City of Lost Children"... October 2, 2004
E. Belianski (Toronto, CANADA)
5 out of 18 found this review helpful
It's most likely just personal taste, but I wasn't blown away by this movie as much as most of the other people here seem to be. It was a valiant attempt, sure, for a director who'd only made dark films before to try to film a light comedy. Somehow, it didn't quite click with me. I judge this film a good effort, but I think that it missed its potential too often.pI'll start with the first problem: The narrator. The narrator is present throughout the film, basically describing the story at every step; whenever a new character comes into the film, the narrator describes their "likes" and "dislikes". For me, this was especially distracting at the beginning of the film, when new characters came onto the screen so quickly that it was difficult to keep track of them all. Also, I may be alone, but I find the concept of judging a person by what they "like" and "dislike" to be a very shallow way of looking at them.brThe narrator is the "easy way around", but I don't think he's the best; sometimes, I really wished that Jeunet would use him less and use other ways, such as images, sequences, or conversations to tell the story.pAnother thing that botherred me was the film's attitude to love (don't read the next sentence if you're underage); that true love comes only through flirting and passionate sex. There is NEVER any conversation between the people in the film who are in love that would show that they love each other for something other than their bodies or their outward mannerisms; instead, it's all instinctive, impulsive, physical love. Really, I found it a bit silly, shallow and demeaning to the viewer.pThirdly, almost all of the characters in this film, including Amelie, are so different from me or anybody I know that I simply can't relate with them at all (with a few exceptions like the "Glass Man" or his assistant). Most of them are well acted (like the man who played the "Glass Man"'s assistant, the immigrant artist/fruit-stand worker; brilliant), but I also find myself not finding them very interesting or realistic, and the ones that I DO find interesting are not the main characters...pLastly, the story still feels too "fake", a leftover from the director's previous films. It was fine in "City of Lost Children" and "Delicatessen", where I suspended my disbelief somewhat because they obviously took place in alternate universes to ours. "Amelie", however, is too close to the "real world" for me to make those same kind of allowances. It often seemed too "glossy" a picture of the real world to me (I know that this is what Jeunet was going for, but that doesn't mean I have to like it).pHaving now displayed all of the reasons why I DIDN'T like it, you may be wandering why I'm still giving it 4 stars. :)pBasically, because despite all of the flaws, it was brilliantly filmed, suceeded often enough to keep it interesting, and left me feeling relatively satisfied at the end. Most of you will probably love it; if the premise sounds like something that you would like, then go ahead and give it a try. Personally, I wasn't sure that it was quite my type of film, and I turned out to be correct in that regard. If I had to rate it, I'd give it somewhere between 75-79/100.
 Just Average February 29, 2004
3 out of 23 found this review helpful
There is no way this movie deserved the Oscar nominations it got. The only thing great about this movie is the cinematography and the manner in which the story is delivered and shot which is pleasant to watch for the most part. Wonderful use of camera captures some very beautiful images and some very nice performances. Audrey Tautou is just wonderful as Amelie as well. The problem with the film is that the story isn't very good and comes off sort of disjointed and uneven by the end. The film is in French which is ok but some of the English subtitle work is incorrect in translation or just plain wrong and gives the film less impact than it should when you are reading something other than what the actors are saying. Some of the little jokes are lost because of this. Overall this is comparible to a quirky, small budgeted, artsy version of Forrest Gump in an intimate light-hearted setting. It will make you smile, but the size of that smile will depend on if you paid more than 15 dollars for the dvd.
This movie managed to melt even my hardened heart.... November 25, 2003
Rida Mirza (Canada)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I watched this movie by accident. I was killing time. Soon, I found myself riveted to the movie.brIt is a beautiful and sweet story. The story made me feel like a 14 year old falling in love. I am not going to go over the plot - I am going to talk about feelings. I felt light - as if a weight had been taken off my shoulders. My eyes got misty. That hasn't happened for the last 20 years. I was left with a smile and I went to sleep peacefully. This is a MUST WATCH!!
Interesting but psychadelic June 25, 2003
This film is interesting, and really unusual, you loose all you references when you start seeing it, the negative point about it is that it is a bit psychadelic, you don't really understand what is happening, you ar taken in to a irrealistic and ideal world, where everything is good.
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