| | Amelie DVD (18 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Comedies DVDs, Foreign Films Movies, Romance Videos, Essential Cinema, French, Magic, Paris, France | | Starring | Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Dominique Pinon, Rufus, Claire Maurier, Yolande Moreau, Isabelle Nanty, Serge Merlin, Urbain Cancellier, Lorella Cravotta, Jamel Debbouze | | Director | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | | Composer | Yann Tiersen | | Costume Designer | Madeline Fontaine | | Director of Photography | Bruno Delbonnel | | Narrator | Andre Dussollier | | Producer | Claudie Ossard | | Screenwriter | Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant |
This foreign comedy/drama involves young a French woman who enjoys making strangers in her neighborhood happy anyway possible. 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. Theatrical release: November 2, 2001 Amelie Reviews: "...A delicious pastry of a movie -- A lighthearted fantasy with a winsome heroine....A magical charmer..."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "...Amelie's got girl-power by the bucket-load..."
-- Charlotte O'Sullivan, Sight and Sound "...Mr. Jeunet's sense of humor gives the movie heart; his real affection for the medium can be seen in all the funny little curlicues and jottings around the action..."
-- Elvis Mitchell, New York Times "...Charming....Bound to capture American hearts and imaginations with its whimsical fable of random acts of kindness..."
-- Claudia Puig, USA Today "...While Amelie the plucky girl beguiles, AMELIE the charming movie, already an international success, seduces..."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly Amelie Movie Review Average Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Great french film
I love this film, I recommend to buy it, it is worth your money, these are the classic films that you can watch over and over.
Submitted by su.serran (Chula Vista, San Diego, CA) 
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Smart and Beautiful
Amelie, the second movie I've seen directed by French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is as beautiful, sweet, smart and charming as it's main character, after whom the movie has been named and who can be seen on the movie's cover, greeting you with a warm, friendly smile and mishchief in her eyes. Beautiful imagery and special effects as well as a romantic story sure to charm the girls and impress the guys.
Submitted by agesta84 (Rego Park, NY, USA)
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Amelie is a perfect example of the
importance of careful casting. Audrey
Tautout made what easily could have been
a disaster into one of the most charming
films in a long time. Lovely!
Submitted by robin (Edinburgh , UK)
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If you liked Delicatessen, City of Lost Children or Alien 4 Resurection, you have to see this movie. The best script of french/belgium duo Jeunet and Caro. A must-have for solid-story movies fans.
Submitted by a reviewer (Mexico City)
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This is a drama but this is a commedy too, the fillings are sublimed by the history and one practical psicologic therapy that can be showed like a magic event will be present.
Submitted by a reviewer (México DF)
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Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay, this magical comedy earned overwhelming acclaim nationwide! A painfully shy waitress working at a tiny Paris cafe, Amélie makes a surprising discovery and sees her life drastically changed for the better! From then on, Amélie dedicates herself to helping others find happiness ... in the most delightfully unexpected way! But will she have the courage to do for herself what she has done for others?
Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
2-Disc Set
Region 1
Special Edition
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Letterbox - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - French
Additional Release Material:
Trailers
Behind the Scenes
Audition Footage:
1. Lead Cast
Comparisons: Film-to-Storyboard Comparison
Audio Commentary: Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Director
Music Video: Quai
Shorts: THE GARDEN GNOME'S TRAVELS
Featurette:
1. INSIDE THE MAKING OF AMELIE
2. THE AMELIE EFFECT
3. THE LOOK OF AMELIE
4. FANTASIES OF AUDREY TAUTOU
Production Interviews:
1. Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Director
2. Cast & Crew
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Text/Photo Galleries:
Filmographies
Poster Art
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