STARRING: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta, Serge Merlin, Jamel Debbouze, Clair Maurier, Clotilde Mollet, Isabelle Nanty, Dominique Pinon, Arfus de Penguern, Yolande Moreau, Urbain Cancelier and Maurice Bénichou. Cinematography by Bruno Delbonnel. Edited by Hervé Schneid. Music by Uann Tiersen. Story by Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Juenet. Directed and screenplay by Jean-Pieree Jeunet. Budget $10 million. Running time 123 minutes. World wide box office $174.4 million. Originally released in 2001.
Quite possibly the most charming, sweet, adorable, whimsical and spellbindingly romantic movie ever made and also quite possibly the best French film EVER made. FACT! It tells the story of quirky Amélie Poulain who moves to Montmartre to work in a typical French Café and decides to help the small group of people who've become her surrogate family, before finding unexpected love in a photo-booth.
I would actually call this sublime, it's a wonderful film that put a smile on my face, that lasted the whole film, from the opening seconds when we actually watch Amélie conceived, through her unhappy childhood and finally her escape to Paris when she's an adult. It's all so overwhelmingly charming that it's impossible to find fault with it, there's an energy that veritably pulses off the screen, the camera and direction dance with the joy. The cast, every single goddam one of them brings something to the mix, with a naturalistic ease. And through it all, beaming like a 10,000 lumem bulb, dances the beating heart of the film, Audry Tautou's Amélie, so effervescent she could out shine the sun. God, the camera loves her as she commands every close-up. Think of the film as a series of mini adventures as Amélie secretly orchestrates events to help those closest to her find love.
Drop everything and see this now.
10/10
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