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List Price: $19.99 | | Label: Miramax Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 830
Released: July 16, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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?
Description of Amelie:
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
Amelie Reviews:
LOVED IT! 
2009-10-19 - This movie is in my top 10 movies of all time. Really its a feel good movie, with a great soundtrack. The the people and their oddities really put things into perspective, you could probably pick a character and know a person just like them. It also comments on life's simple pleasures, which i think people all to often forget. Don't rent this movie buy it, really you'll be happy you did.
Candy... For the Eyes and the Heart
2009-10-13 - I love this movie, it's the sort of pretty thing you can watch again and again. Some fans of foreign films or of this director will likely be disappointed by how "sappy" it is, which I can get, but I loved this movie despite any disneyesque qualities it has. It's very pretty to look at, it stirs up warm feelings and it may even leave you looking at garden gnomes differently.
This film put Audrey Tautou on the International Map
2009-09-13 - Audrey Tautou (The Davinci Code) evokes Audry Hepburn for me. This sweet film, based in Paris, follows the pursuit of love a young Parisian woman feels for a mysterious man she finds pictured in several novelty photograph booths. She gently inspires her father back to life by enlisting the aid of a flight attendant friend of hers to take her father's garden gnome with her on flights around the world. Pictures of the gnome in Russia and other exotic locals are sent back as postcards to the father who grows more perplexed about the adventures his gnome seems to be enjoying. Obviously, Travelocity was inspired enough by this movie to adopt the Traveling Gnome for their very own mascot!
On a trip to Paris about a year after seeing this film for the first time I stumbled upon the small park that is featured in the film as a sort of puzzle/treasure hunt or the young would-be lovers. I can't express the delight it evoked in me and finding it by accident was perhaps the perfect way to experience the park.
Subtitled in English, you wont notice for long that you're reading. The cinematography is gorgeous and Audrey Tautou is an absolute joy to watch.
best foreign film ever
2009-08-31 - I first saw this on an international flight, probably the year it came out. I rented it for my family when I got home. Seven years later I bought it on amazon after first looking thru assorted blockbuster previously viewed and not finding it. Thanks amazon, for having this available and I got two other french films on the same purchase. Supposidly this film did not receive a French award because it was too "American". Well, they can keep their awards along with their perfume and I will keep Amelie forever.
A remarkable body of work
2009-08-19 - I've loved the work of this director (and his earlier partner) since Delicatessen. Each of their films is uniquely visual, and Amelie is no exception. They have a flare for composition and camera movement like nothing you've ever seen. But Amalie has added to it a sweetness and whimsy that is lost in some of their earlier, darker films.
