Amélie Reviews

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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

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

Full Review | Original Score: B

Thoughtful, charming for 16+.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: A

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.

Full Review | Original Score: B

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

| Original Score: 4.5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: A-

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

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

| Original Score: 3.5/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

It will give you the kind of feeling that you wish you could bottle up and carry with you for the rest of your days.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5