Amelie

Product Description:
AMELIE IS LOOKING FOR LOVE, AND PERHAPS FOR THE MEANING OF LIFE IN GENERAL. WE SEE HER GROW UP IN AN ORIGINAL AND SLIGHTLY DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY. NOW A WAITRESS IN CENTRAL PARIS, SHE INTERACTS CURIOUSLY WITH HER NEIGHBORS AND CUSTOMERS, AS WELL AS A MYSTERIOUS PICTURE COLLECTOR AND ONE OF HIS PHOTO SUBJECTS.

Amazon.com:
Perhaps the most charming movie of all time, Amélie is certainly one of the top 10. The title character (the bashful and impish AudreyTautou) 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 café; 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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Customer Reviews

Rating: - One of the Best Movies ever made !!!
I am not going to give you a break-down of this movie, because it is described below countless times.
You have to see this movie if you haven't. It's magical, beautiful and well-crafted. From the director themovie "City of Lost Children".
It will make you smile quite often... If not, then you probably can't read subtitles or don't have an imagination.
I rate this movie up there with "Magnolia", "American Beauty" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".
You will want ... Read More
Rating: - fun
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!
Rating: - Good international movie
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.
Rating: - Wonderful
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.
Rating: - "An urge to help mankind comes over her."
This delightful French confection, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and co-written by Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant, is the story of Amélie 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, Amélie 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. ... Read More