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User Reviews for: Amélie

Sólstafir
CONTAINS SPOILERS8/10  3 years ago
What a sunkissed beauty this is. Amelie hits all the right notes to create a harmony which is seriously missing these days in real life. This movie brings to life to the feeling of doing something good for others. And through that act of seeing the happiness in others, you are rewarded. This guardian angel like feel is so romantic and wholesome that it showers like stardust in all the scenes.

Amelie is an introvert person. Her strange parents are to be blamed for her personality. She is a bit timid, without friends and lives a lonely simple life. [spoiler] One day in her apartment, she discovers a tiny box kept hidden by the previous owner. With a stroke of the divine will, she decides to find the owner of the decades-old box.[/spoiler] This tiny roll of snowflake snowballs into her later life where she finds immense pleasure and meaning in making others happy unbeknownst to them.

In these endeavours, her paths cross with Nino, another esoteric imaginative soul who collects discarded photos from photo-booths and creates photo albums from those. Seeing those albums itself is one high point of the film. She likes him, but her timid and introvert personality would never allow her to just engage, so she takes a support of her creativity and imagination, probably to check if Nino is even worth allowing to enter her shell.

Amelie is a beautiful film. The attention to all the characters shows. By the end of the film, you start caring about every one of them. There is a glass man painter who repaints Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party every year, there is Georgette, the resident hypochondriac of the cafe Amelie works at. Even the annoying Joseph is worth caring about a bit.

Then there is music. Yann Tiersen piano music engulfs you with the emotions on screen. I guess the music is one clear operative factor for this film.

Overall, it is worth a watch to see how happiness flows. It is higher on the list of films which can easily uplift your mood.
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