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Amelie (2001)

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Reviews Counted:139

Fresh:125

Rotten:14

Average Rating:7.9/10

Consensus: The feel-good Amelie is a lively, fanciful charmer, showcasing Audrey Tautou as its delightful heroine.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for sexual content

Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Nov 2, 2001 Limited

Box Office: $33,177,691

Synopsis: Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) is a young woman who glides through the streets of Paris as quietly as a mouse. With wide eyes and a tiny grin, she sees the world in a magical light, discovering... Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) is a young woman who glides through the streets of Paris as quietly as a mouse. With wide eyes and a tiny grin, she sees the world in a magical light, discovering minor miracles every day. A shy and reserved person whose favorite moments are spent alone skimming stones into the water, Amélie was raised by a pair of eccentrics who falsely diagnosed her with a heart problem at the age of six and so limited her exposure to the outside world. Now a free and independent woman, Amélie wears a bob that curls in every direction and dresses in red. With a job in a café and an aptitude for spying on her neighbors, Amélie entertains herself by enacting a series of homemade, kindhearted practical jokes. She returns a long-forgotten box of childhood knickknacks to its proper owner, she sends her father's garden troll on a trip around the world, and she creates a love connection at the café between the hypochondriac druggist and a beer-drinking old grouch. But when the day is done, Amélie finds one stone unturned, and decides to work her magic on the quirky object of her affections, Nino Quincampoix (Matthieu Kassovitz), whom she has never met. Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (who codirected DELICATESSEN and THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN with Marc Caro) presents AMÉLIE, an aesthetically gorgeous and inventive film. The rich, glowing color scheme is offset by flashbacks in black and white archival footage that give short biographies of each character. A soft-spoken narrator guides viewers through this enlightening fairy tale, which sometimes speeds through the streets and other times drifts in slow motion. AMÉLIE is humorous, questioning, and strange, and it will change the lives of all who watch it, if only for a short while after leaving Amélie's world. [More]

Starring: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta

Starring: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta, Claire Maurier, Isabelle Nanty, Dominique Pinon, Serge Merlin, Jamel Debbouze, Yolande Moreau, Urbain Cancellier

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Screenwriter: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant
Producer: Claudie Ossard
Composer: Yann Tiersen
Studio: Miramax Films

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04/29/09
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07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

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.

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10/01/05
Steven Snyder
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Adorable beyond belief, [Audrey Tatou] wins our hearts with a performance that could comfortably exist in silent cinema.

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03/31/05
Mark Pfeiffer
Mark Pfeiffer
DVDMon.com

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

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12/06/04
Jeffrey Overstreet
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

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06/25/04
Judith Egerton
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12/15/03
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12/15/03
Alexander Walker
Alexander Walker
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.

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07/19/03
Steven D. Greydanus
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04/13/03
Stephen Himes
Stephen Himes
Film Snobs

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

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03/18/03
Brian Mckay
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03/16/03
Kimberly Jones
Kimberly Jones
Austin Chronicle

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.

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02/13/03
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