Amelie |  | Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta, Serge Merlin
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  1016 reviews
Sales Rank: 672
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 122 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.9
MPN: 02607500
UPC: 786936180893
EAN: 0786936180893
ASIN: B0000640VO
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: July 16, 2002
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AMELIE
Amazon.com
Perhaps the most charming movie of all time, Amélie is certainly one of the top 10. The title character (the bashful and impish Audrey Tautou) is a single waitress who decides to help other lonely people fix their lives. Her widowed father yearns to travel but won't, so to inspire the old man she sends his garden gnome on a tour of the world; with whispered gossip, she brings together two cranky regulars at her café; she reverses the doorknobs and reprograms the speed dial of a grocer who's mean to his assistant. Gradually she realizes her own life needs fixing, and a chance meeting leads to her most elaborate stratagem of all. This is a deeply wonderful movie, an illuminating mix of magic and pragmatism. Fans of the director's previous films (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children) will not be disappointed; newcomers will be delighted. --Bret Fetzer
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 Amelie is altruistic, but also a bit controlling, too September 9, 2010
Elisabeth
The movie starts out showing how insulated Amelie's childhood was. Amelie was raised by detached and physically withholding parents who had a strong need for order. She coped with her situation by delving into her imagination (she had no toys, just her mind to play with) and by paying close attention to minute details about adults.
And whenever she stepped out of this bubble, she also doled out punishments to whomever she felt deserved it (like unplugging one man's tv).
When Amelie gets older, nothing much changes except her mother dies and her father goes into mourning (though I'm not sure why since he never interacted with his wife).
Amelie still delves into her imagination, viewing everything as larger and brighter than life, the way a child would.
She still pays attention to the minute details about adults.
And she also doles out punishments to whomever she feels deserves it...except, as an adult, this behavior is supposed to be viewed as altruistic. But really, I saw it as her mimicking her parents' need for order.
In other words, she appeared just as perfectionistic and controlling as her parents...except with a warm and caring side, too.
Another pattern she repeats is being drawn to a man who likes to break apart pictures only to put them back together again....similar to her parents' compulsive habit of breaking apart things to put them back together again. I think Amelie was drawn to perfecting things.
I have a feeling actress Audrey Tautou is shy in real life, so she was perfectly cast as the shy and awkward Amelie. I did, however, find it jolting, and unnecessary, when she would suddenly talk into the camera. I understand the purpose was so we could hear her thoughts out loud, but we already had a voice over telling us that already, so this was a bit of over kill .
The movie has it's funny moments (like the fish committing suicide, the jealous man thinking his ex's laugh mimicked an orgasm, and the "fur pie") and the romance between her and her love interest was sweet (especially her first kiss). However, the movie also became too repetitive after awhile. The jealous man was funny at first, but the joke got old after awhile. And the romance took way too long to take off. I think any normal man would find her game playing too weird and immature to continue.
Overall, this movie has it's cute and funny moments, but also dragged on too long (especially towards the end).
 Excellent transaction, Recomended Seller****************** August 23, 2010
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Quirky, French language film filmed in and around Paris with an original and unassuming plot that is suprisingly good. Using the IMDB rating scale of 1 to 10, I give it a 7.6.
Watch out for the woman with the waterglass July 22, 2010
DelusionalAngel (USA)
Amélie has never quite adjusted to people. She lives alone and seems to like it that way, until she finds a tin box in her apartment, left behind by a resident who had been a resident as a child there decades earlier. She realizes that if she can return it to the grown him it could be a good thing. Which leads to her the idea that helping others in general would give her the same feeling, without them knowing she is helping of course, and so it becomes her prime focus in life. Well that and teasing and tempting a man she takes a liking to - also from afar.
It's a fun quirky movie. Everyone should be so lucky as to bump into their own Amélie in life.
one of my favorites July 20, 2010
not mark twain (denver, co)
This has to be one of my favorite movies. I love everything about it. The cinematography and colors are beautiful. I also love the music. The story is just so charming you have to love her.
Delightful July 11, 2010
M (I wait behind the wall, gnawing away at your reality)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've been hearing about this movie for a long time - nearly since it came out here to the States, but it is not until yesterday that I finally had the chance to watch this film. And I certainly was not disappointed.
The story is interesting and quirky, with some laugh-out-loud scenes (such as Amelie wondering how many people are having an orgasm at a certain moment) as well as each person being given a brief bio and what they like or do not like. Some of it is crazy stuff, like what happened to Amelie's mom. There's a cool array of characters here, and I loved the revelation about the one guy who keeps getting his picture taken in the photo booth - I certainly didn't see that coming. What is it? Nah, I shan't spoil you. There's some funny lines and scenes here, and a few thought-provoking ones, though I wish Amelie and her new boyfriend didn't play cat and mouse so much, it got repetitive towards the end. Overall this is a funny and quirky film, and highly enjoyable, so I give it 4/5/5 stars.
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