Review of Amélie (2001) by Clem666 — 18 Feb 2021

Based on a true story apparently. Quite an interesting movie developing some parallel stories. I have to recognize the original idea is as awesome as the way events are shot and edited. All along the movie has that strange energy pouring out of itself and that will not leave you indifferent. Unfortunately a lot of varied movies have follow the same path during years and watching 'Amélie' these days is a bit unconfortable due to its age.

Amélie (the main character) is lovable and attractive from the beginning. Her acting (Audrey Tautou) is awesome. As the movie starts by enunciate some real and fictive dramas, having empathy for her is quite easy. But as the plot moves on she begins to be little by little annoying, useless and inconsistent making the last thirty minutes a pain to watch. Other characters are also interesting as almost all of them evolve in a certain way. Too bad some of them go from being a huge cliché to become another indecent cliché. Overall acting is really rich even in french (my mother tongue which allowed me to watch the original version), and god knows how acting in french movies can be dreadful.

Original score from Yann Tiersen is perfect, there is no other word to qualify it. However that doesn't excuse the director to loop the main theme in way too many scenes eventually making it a bit boring and repetitive.