Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)

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	Year of first release: 2001
	Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles, Alien Resurrection)
	Actors: Audrey Tautou (Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles, La Délicatesse), Mathieu Kassovitz (Amen), Rufus
	Country: F
	Genre: Comedy, Romance
	Conditions of visioning: 24.03.2013, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Amélie (Tautou) is a lonely girl living in beautiful Paris. She dreams of Love.
Review: It is difficult to review this movie. I have seen it many many times and it does not affect me now as it did in the first years, when I was watching it in Germany and longing for France. I see that it has aged a little, the sepia colors don't look so good on Blu-ray, and especially parts of it have been copied in other movies, from the same director (Micmacs à tire-larigot) or from others (La Délicatesse). But I still see its qualities: the original screenplay, a nice story about helping others, the narrator's voice-over, the small habits of Amélie that make you smile, her manipulations, the relationhip with her father, simple characters, the romance, the idyllic vision of Paris (no wonder the Asiatic tourists need psychotherapy when they arrive to the real Paris after watching this movie!), the beautiful music by Yann Tiersen, the childhood trauma and at the same time the part of child remaining in an adult. Definitely a masterpiece of French cinema.
Rating: 9 /10