An unepxected wonder
- Amelie review by CP Customer
You really can't tell what Amelie is all about from just watching the trailer. It is no mere love story. It is a wise, funny and wonderful film about everything from people who hate it when their swimming costumes stick to them, to mysteriously travelling stone garden gnomes to little pleasures you forgot you loved. Possibly the best film I have ever seen (and I have seen a lot!). If you don't love it, you don't love life.
10 out of 11 members found this review helpful.
Brilliantly bonkers
- Amelie review by JD
A gem. This has recently been appearing in must see and top 10 lists and absolutely deserves this recognition. It is light hearted, mad, but most importantly different. Outstanding and totally memorable.
7 out of 8 members found this review helpful.
Still great after all these years
- Amelie review by AM
Amelie came out at the same time my wife and I started dating. It was the first film we saw at the cinema, bought the video etc. On rewatching, over a decade later it holds up well. It perhaps has the timeless quality, and isn't reliant on what were current issues (other than the Lady Di references). The kooky humour is still great, it looks great - basically, it's great.
5 out of 5 members found this review helpful.
An Absolute Delight
- Amelie review by GI
Amélie is a film of sheer delight. It's a tale of love, happiness and with an aura of fantasy it's a film that will leave you with a heart warming sense of life. Shot in a balmy, pastel palette and set in Paris it tells the tale of Amélie (Audrey Tautou), a young woman who has grown up isolated and lonely after her father wrongly assumes she has a heart defect and overly protects her. To counter this Amélie creates a world around herself that sees goodness and happiness as she finds fun in the smallest of things. As an adult and a humble waitress she decides to dedicate her time to helping others and she also begins to fall for Nino (Mathieu Kassovitz) when she finds his strange photo album. This is a tale about life and the art of enjoying it whatever your circumstances. It's full of lovely, well drawn characters who each have some issue or other and to which Amélie decides to try and change for the better. If you're aware of mindfulness then you'll spot how this film fits into that concept. At it's centre this is a beautiful romance with elements of a mystery story and a film that has originality, humour and joy. A film to turn to when you might feel low because this will bring life back into focus. Ah the magic of cinema. If you've never seen this then it's a must.
2 out of 2 members found this review helpful.
Still [wonderfully] crazy after all these years
- Amelie review by Mr Aquarium
Beguiling love song to Paris, the silliness of lovers, harmless pleasures, well-travelled garden gnomes. The reviews of CP Customer and JD sum it up well; "wise, funny and wonderful" & "a gem".
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.
What a disappointment ..
- Amelie review by JD
I read the reviews, waited in anticipation for it to arrive, and then spent two hours after, thinking what a waste of time that was.. If that's the ultimate feel good love story, then I'm the Queen of England..
0 out of 2 members found this review helpful.