Amélie (2001)

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Tautou is gloriously alive in the title role.

November 16, 2001

Jay Boyar

Orlando Sentinel

Top Critic

A blast of pure movie bliss, a hilarious, imaginative and exhilarating love letter to the romantic in all of us.

November 15, 2001 Full Review

Rene Rodriguez

Miami Herald

Top Critic

The sort of magical work that reminds us how truly fine movies at their best can be.

June 16, 2013 Full Review

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

It is a rare thing to have an illuminating experience whilst watching a film, but that is exactly what is encountered with Amelie.

January 4, 2012 Full Review

Matthew Pejkovic

Matt's Movie Reviews

What comes across most powerfully is Jeunet's athletic, playful directing style, a tour de force of tricks, gags and effects.

October 13, 2011 Full Review

Andrew Pulver

Guardian [UK]

A magnificent movie -- made a masterpiece by Audrey Tautou.

July 25, 2011

Gregory Weinkauf

ÜberCiné

Sometimes it's enough to attend the cinema to escape to another world

February 13, 2011 Full Review

John A. Nesbit

Old School Reviews

Thoughtful, charming for 16+.

December 21, 2010 Full Review

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

Amelie and Nino's love story bursts forth in a colorful fantasia. Their wild goose chase of romance soars as high as Bruno Delbonnel's absinthe-tinged camerawork. And their kiss makes for one of the Zeroes' most tender and quietly sensual.

September 25, 2010 Full Review

Nick Rogers

Suite101.com

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March 9, 2009 Full Review

Steve Biodrowski

Cinefantastique

The movie is joyful and whimsical, floating through Monmartre with its tounge placed firmly in cheek.

June 21, 2007 Full Review

Jason Gorber

Film Scouts

In his solo effort, Jeunet puts aside the darkly humorous sensibility of his previous films (Delicatessen, co-directed with Caro)in the service of a sweet but toothless (and sexless) romantic comedy that's bound to make lead Audrey Tautou a star.

March 29, 2007 Full Review

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Adorable beyond belief, [Audrey Tatou] wins our hearts with a performance that could comfortably exist in silent cinema.

March 31, 2005

Mark Pfeiffer

DVDMon.com

Jeunet's film is an ambitious, rich, and rewarding experience, packed end-to-end with delightful creativity.

December 6, 2004 Full Review

Jeffrey Overstreet

Looking Closer

If you liked the quirky German film Run Lola Run and the romanticism of Chocolat, you'll want to see this whimsical new-wave picture

June 25, 2004 Full Review | Comment (1)

Judith Egerton

Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

It's European-style magic realism if you like.

December 15, 2003 Full Review

Derek Malcolm

This is London

Charms with its breezy, stylized storytelling [and] the wide eyes and breathless expression of Audrey Tautou… liabilities include a slightly dragged-out resolution and a rather amoral view of sexuality.

July 19, 2003 Full Review

Steven D. Greydanus

Decent Films Guide

While this is generally the kind of overly-whimsical, light-hearted yet pretentious, foreign art-house crapola I tend to avoid, I gotta say this was pretty good

March 18, 2003 Full Review

Brian Mckay

eFilmCritic.com

Tautou's inherent charm, garnished with a gaze of innocent sexuality, lends the character of Amélie the perfect recipe for audiences to take her to their collective hearts.

February 13, 2003 Full Review

Tom Grealis

RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

Tautou captures the innocence, joie-de-vivre, and even the delightful naiveté of...do you notice me using all these French words?

February 8, 2003 Full Review

John R. McEwen

Film Quips Online

The funniest foreign language film I've seen, 'Amélie" is a life-affirming satire that transcends reality.

January 29, 2003

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

In all, Tautou is the most adorable Frenchwoman to grace movie screens since we first laid eyes on La Binoche in The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

December 8, 2002 Full Review

Tim Merrill

Film Threat

• 1. Dominique Bredoteau Woman: Don't you drink?
  2. Amélie: No, I'm working
  – Submitted by Jake H (10 days ago)
• 1. Amélie: Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's.
  – Submitted by Anna C (6 months ago)
• 1. Amélie: It's better to help people than a garden gnome.
  – Submitted by Frances H (7 months ago)
• 1. Café Patron: I had my nasal cavities fixed.
  2. The Bar Owner: You're a born romantic.
  – Submitted by Frances H (7 months ago)
• 1. Café Patron: You'll find Mr. Right one day. All women want to sleep on a man's shoulder.
  2. The Bar Owner: All men snore after a few drinks and I have a musical ear.
  – Submitted by Frances H (7 months ago)
• 1. The Newsstand Woman: A woman without love wilts like a flower without sun.
  – Submitted by Zamir H (9 months ago)

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