Amelie |  | Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta, Serge Merlin
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  1015 reviews
Sales Rank: 792
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 122 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.9
MPN: 02607500
UPC: 786936180893
EAN: 0786936180893
ASIN: B0000640VO
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: July 16, 2002
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AMELIE
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 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 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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 Excellent transaction, Recomended Seller****************** August 23, 2010
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Quirky, French language film filmed in and around Paris with an original and unassuming plot that is suprisingly good. Using the IMDB rating scale of 1 to 10, I give it a 7.6.
Watch out for the woman with the waterglass July 22, 2010
DelusionalAngel (USA)
Amélie has never quite adjusted to people. She lives alone and seems to like it that way, until she finds a tin box in her apartment, left behind by a resident who had been a resident as a child there decades earlier. She realizes that if she can return it to the grown him it could be a good thing. Which leads to her the idea that helping others in general would give her the same feeling, without them knowing she is helping of course, and so it becomes her prime focus in life. Well that and teasing and tempting a man she takes a liking to - also from afar.
It's a fun quirky movie. Everyone should be so lucky as to bump into their own Amélie in life.
one of my favorites July 20, 2010
not mark twain (denver, co)
This has to be one of my favorite movies. I love everything about it. The cinematography and colors are beautiful. I also love the music. The story is just so charming you have to love her.
Delightful July 11, 2010
M (I wait behind the wall, gnawing away at your reality)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've been hearing about this movie for a long time - nearly since it came out here to the States, but it is not until yesterday that I finally had the chance to watch this film. And I certainly was not disappointed.
The story is interesting and quirky, with some laugh-out-loud scenes (such as Amelie wondering how many people are having an orgasm at a certain moment) as well as each person being given a brief bio and what they like or do not like. Some of it is crazy stuff, like what happened to Amelie's mom. There's a cool array of characters here, and I loved the revelation about the one guy who keeps getting his picture taken in the photo booth - I certainly didn't see that coming. What is it? Nah, I shan't spoil you. There's some funny lines and scenes here, and a few thought-provoking ones, though I wish Amelie and her new boyfriend didn't play cat and mouse so much, it got repetitive towards the end. Overall this is a funny and quirky film, and highly enjoyable, so I give it 4/5/5 stars.
 Enjoyable, fun, life-affirming, but not for kids! July 9, 2010
Craig MACKINNON (Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada)
Amelie is a waitress in a Montmarte cafe. She is painfully shy, but has an impish sense of humour. One day she finds a box hidden behind a baseboard in her apartment - full of little toys and pictures, obviously belonging to a little boy. She tracks down the boy (now a 50-year-old man) and anonymously gives him the box. His obvious joy at finding these childhood treasures, and his vow to look up his estranged daughter, inspire Amelie to embark on a life of do-gooding. Thus, the life-affirming and very charming film Amelie is underway.
The joy of Amelie lies not only in the story, but also how it effortlessly evokes a place (Paris's Montmartre district) and a feel. The cimematographer artificially ramps up the colour to give a lush, bright, and cheerful film to match the quirky and charming events of the film. Few films make such good use of location (it is revealed in the director's commentary, for example, that both the sex shop and grocery are within walking distance of the director's own apartment). Sacre Coeur Cathedral is featured in one scene, but it is not emphasized - it's just part of the landscape.
Doubtless some jokes are lost in translation, but even this subtitled version is full of funny jokes. Few are laugh-out-loud Simpsons-esque jokes to be sure, but you're likely to have a smile on your face throughout. Tatou is brilliant in her portrayal of the titular heroine, and the rest of the cast also rise to the occasion. I especially like her relationship with the eccentric painter who lives in a nearby apartment. In analyzing the Renoir he is copying, she and he also analyze her life, leading to some of the most moving moments in the film.
Many reviewers call this a perfect romantic movie. While I don't agree - the characters are all so quirky that it gets a little tiresome, and there is a rediculous "misunderstanding" that only serves to draw the conclusion of the film out for no good reason (and making the film 15 minutes too long). But it is very good and fun for all adult ages and both genders (English viewers might be taken aback by the seemingly random and casual insertion of nudity/sex at certain points, but this is such a typically French attitude that, for me, it adds positively to the evocation of time and place).
There are some nifty extras. Of most interest is the technical featurette that details the location shooting and the cinematographer's work. The director Jeunet is actually quite funny in English as well as French, and the Q&A session at an American university is also quite fun (especially when he shoots down a questioner who makes the mistake of mentioning the French New Wave: "New? That was 40 years ago!")
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