• Director- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Starring- Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus
• Date Released- April 25, 2001 (Belgium)
• Budget- FRF 77,000,000 (estimated)
• Locations- France and Germany
Amelie is an odd story about a girl who was neglected during her childhood. She later moves to central Paris where she becomes a waitress and begins to explore love and beauty. After finding a lost treasure belonging to the former person who lived in the apartment, she decides to return it to him. After seeing his reaction she decides to devote her life to the people around her. She then becomes more aggressive in her life trying to catch the heart of a young man.
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B03EEDD1130F931A35752C1A9679C8B63
In this article from the NY Times Elvis Mitchell writes “Jean-Pierre Jeunet's ''Amélie,'' a sugar-rush of a movie, has what could be called meticulous clutter, a placement of imagery that covers every square centimeter of the screen.” He also states in the article that Jeunet used a lot of computer-generated imagery to create Paris. The film's original French title was ''Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain,''.
Amelie is a movie I would never watch on my own behalf. This is one of those movies that are hard to follow and at times harder to understand. The French to English language barrier could be one thing holding me back from even thinking about liking this movie. In my opinion a movie with subtitles is hard to follow because you find yourself reading the words on the bottom of screen more than watching the true beauty of the movie.
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