00s Movie Review - Amélie

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Genre: Drama/ Comedy/ Romance
Runtime: 122 minutes
Year: 2001
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Serge Merlin, Urbain Cancelier, Lorella Cravotta, Rufus, Jamel Debbouze, Clotilde Mollet, Claire Maurier, Isabelle Nanty, Dominique Pinon, Artus de Penguern, Yolande Moreau, Michel Robin, Maurice Bénichou

Description: Amelie (Audrey Tautou) is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.

Review: “Amélie” is THE movie for optimistic, happy dreamers. And this film is a threat for us all. Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet paints with his camera, juggles with the story and does an amazing job with the montage. The lively enthusiasm takes Amélie into a world filled with funny, quirky and sweet people and happenings.
Amélie Poulain is a girl who takes the term “random acts of kindness” very seriously. She still sincerely believes in the goodness of people, happiness and love. Actress Audrey Tautou plays her with a playful innocence. The perfect fairytale girl.
The way Audrey Tautou is a typical French girl, “Amélie” is a archetypical French film. The movie represents everything the French love and the rest of the world sees as typical for France. A sunny Paris, tiny alleys of Montmartre, the young and sparkly Amélie and her quest for happiness and love. It all sounds cheesy and bitter sweet, but it all looks so good.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet pictured Paris as the personal, ideal fairytale we want it to be. “Amélie” is a happy, positive film that will put a smile on anybody’s face. And that’s the strength of the film. It’s certainly a movie I always turn to, to make me feel better. One of my favorites.

Rating: 5/ 5