To start off with, I heard a lot of good things about this movie when it was on the big screens but never got around to see it before it disappeared. SEE IT IN THE THEATRE IF YOU CAN! This may be the year's best picture and is not to be missed. Just thinking about it gives me goose bumps and I can't wait to see it again. I can't tell you how much I love this movie. Brilliantly hilarious, "Amélie" has a wonderfully funny script and is brought to life in visual splendor by director Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Alien: Resurrection", of all things) and has at its center Audrey Tatou giving one of the warmest, most sincere and funniest performances you'll see this year. The movie is deep and takes Amélie's inner struggle seriously, but it's never heavy. Amélie's conflict is what rounds out the picture and makes it complete. As she continues enriching the lives around her, Amélie becomes challenged with the fact that if she only helps others anonymously, she may live her life alone and without the happiness she brings others. This is only one in a mountain of selfless deeds she does to make people happy. One particularly wonderful scene shows Amélie helping a blind man across the street and rapidly describing what's happening around them to give him a picture of the world he doesn't get to see. Amélie goes about this with great success. What she finds behind that tile leads her to the decision that she is going to do what she can to make the people around her happier by whatever means possible. The film tells the story of French waitress Amélie (Audrey Tautou.) She is in her early twenties, lead a gloomy childhood and is missing something in her life until hearing of the Death of Princess Diana causes her to drop the cap of a bottle which rolls along the floor and dislodges a tile on her bathroom wall. Yes it is heart warming, but not in the phony Wal-Mart commercial sense but in the sense of how good you feel when laughing with a dear, dear friend. Here is a film so original, so funny, and so warm that it left me with smiling for hours and the people on the sidewalk thinking I was crazy. You can add "le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" to that list. Some that come to mind include "The Wizard of Oz", "American Beauty" and "Vertigo." These movies are so distinct and original that they seem to have created there own spot in the universe, untouchable by anything else. Not a lot of movies create their own sort of universe. In short 'Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain' is charming, funny, romantic bright and full of life. In a way her character is really doing that here so it does not feel strange. She looks like she just pulled a joke and she is waiting for you to find out what it is. She has one of those faces that seem to smile the entire time. In this world, Paris actually, Audrey Tautou is the perfect inhabitant. Even the sad parts from Amélie's life, her youth for example, look almost strangely happy. The movie looks colorful and bright almost constantly. The story is not only sweet and charming, it has some great moments of comedy as well. There is a little mystery in the book as well, of course I will not spoil that for you. He puts all those photos and pieces of photos in a big book. Photos that were tossed away because people thought they didn't look good enough. On the way she falls in love with Nino (Mathieu Kassovitz) who's hobby it is to collect photos from automatic photo booths. She helps her father by making him believe that his gnome from the garden is on a trip around the world, she helps a lonely neighbor by just visiting him, she helps a stranger by returning something she found in her home. Not by doing great big things or giving money, but by little things. We have a wonderful story about Amélie who decides to help people around her, making them happy. The story about Amélie (Audrey Tautou) is a modern day fairy tale and that is exactly how it looks the entire film. 'Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain' finds its charm in the little things.
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