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Amélie (2001)

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90

Average Rating: 7.9/10
Reviews Counted: 147
Fresh: 133 | Rotten: 14

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

87

Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 4

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

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Average Rating: 4.2/5
User Ratings: 424,231

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One woman decides to change the world by changing the lives of the people she knows in this charming and romantic comic fantasy from director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Amelie (Audrey Tautou) is a young woman who had a decidedly unusual childhood; misdiagnosed with an unusual heart condition, Amelie didn't attend school with other children, but spent most of her time in her room, where she developed a keen imagination and an active fantasy life. Her mother Amandine (Lorella Cravotta) died in a freak

Jul 16, 2002

$33.2M

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All Critics (170) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (133) | Rotten (14) | DVD (44)

Tautou is gloriously alive in the title role.

November 16, 2001
Orlando Sentinel
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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 Source: Miami Herald
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The sort of magical work that reminds us how truly fine movies at their best can be.

June 16, 2013 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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 Source: Matt's Movie Reviews
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 Source: Guardian [UK]
Guardian [UK]

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

July 25, 2011
ÜberCiné

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

February 13, 2011 Full Review Source: Old School Reviews

Thoughtful, charming for 16+.

December 21, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
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 Source: Suite101.com
Suite101.com

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March 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinefantastique
Cinefantastique

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

June 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Scouts
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 Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
EmanuelLevy.Com

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

March 31, 2005
DVDMon.com

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

December 6, 2004 Full Review Source: Looking Closer
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 Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) | Comment (1)

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

December 15, 2003 Full Review Source: This is London
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 Source: Decent Films Guide
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 Source: eFilmCritic.com
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 Source: 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 Source: Film Quips Online
Film Quips Online

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

January 29, 2003
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 Source: Film Threat
Film Threat

Audience Reviews for Amélie

time to see again
July 7, 2007
brooklynspo

Super Reviewer

A Parisian girl devotes herself to secretly helping those around her, but is it only because she's afraid to go after love herself? This crowd-pleasing comedy/romance with talking photographs and other magical elements is whimsical almost to the point of being flighty. Enjoyable for sure, but I wouldn't have minded seeing a few cannibals pop up.
December 19, 2007
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Greg S

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    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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Foreign Titles

  • Die fabelhafte Welt der Amélie (DE)
  • Amelie (UK)
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