Review of Amélie (2001) by Mark V — 01 Sep 2014

I'm not a fan of French films in general. This was cute and very fun story. Lot of child like whimsy in it.

Overall, visually it's very intriguing. Very nice on the eye and added to the whimsy of the world. The bit characters are also fun, like Louie the special grocer kid. Those parts are fun. I just got a bit tired of Amelie's shit. I also think the fact that the glass man had to tell her to man up for her to actually take a risk with her crush ruins the movie a bit. You'd like to think that she'd find it in herself to overcome her cowardice, but again, she needed an outside influence.

But the other side of it could be that she tried so hard to help other people that she had forgotten to help herself and she just needed a push in the right direction, much like the pushes she had given to the people around her.

Either way you look at it, it could have probably done with being a bit shorter. 2 hours was a bit much. It felt like the movie had one too many missed encounters with her crush.

Overall though, it is such an interesting way to tell a story, it was entertaining. Amelie is the French Zooey Deschanel before there was Zooey Deschanel.