Amelie [VHS]

Amelie [VHS]
by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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Actor: Audrey Tautou, Lorella Cravotta, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Serge Merlin
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel
Writer: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Producer: Arne Meerkamp van Embden
Producer: Claudie Ossard
Producer: Helmut Breuer
Producer: Jean-Marc Deschamps
Writer: Guillaume Laurant
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 122 minutes
Release Date: 2002-07-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Buena Vista Home Video
Studio: Buena Vista Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of Amelie [VHS]

Movie Review: Neither here nor there
Summary: 3 Stars

This is a strange, silly little movie about... Well, nothing in particular. The description is misleading and just plain wrong - this isn't about a girl who does "benevolent acts". This is about one weird, introverted young girl who was raised by dysfunctional parents and is pretty much a psycho, albeit a charming one. She's not "doing good deeds", she pulling PRANKS on unsuspecting neighbors and random strangers. Some are cute and good-natured, others downright wrong and cruel (causing a guy to be electrocuted is hardly "benevolent", or funny for that matter). When she falls in love (or thinks she falls in love), she is incapable of communicating her feelings, so instead she stalks the poor bloke. The kind of person Amelie is might make you wonder if she perhaps had body parts stacked up in her freezer. Maybe that was the whole point, I don't know... Either way, I think it was the fact of the lead acress being so utterly, completely adorable that is this film's saving grace. Sure, it's whimsical, intriguing, funny, colorful, and has that goofy, surreal French flare all over it, but in the end... It's still about absolutely nothing. You expect some awesome, fantastic resolution to the events that unfold before you (even body parts in the freezer would've made it better). What you're left with is nothing. Not a bad film.... Just disappointing and pointless.

Movie Review: I adore this movie
Summary: 5 Stars

I was skeptical about this movie knowing that it was in french so I needed to watch it with English subtitles, but after watching this, it is my new favorite movie. This movie is so delightful and I feel like I can relate to Amelie so well.

Movie Review: Beautifully made and wonderful story
Summary: 5 Stars

This film is so Beautiful and and the story is unique and whimsical. My favorite by far.

Movie Review: LOVED IT!
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is in my top 10 movies of all time. Really its a feel good movie, with a great soundtrack. The the people and their oddities really put things into perspective, you could probably pick a character and know a person just like them. It also comments on life's simple pleasures, which i think people all to often forget. Don't rent this movie buy it, really you'll be happy you did.

Movie Review: Candy... For the Eyes and the Heart
Summary: 5 Stars

I love this movie, it's the sort of pretty thing you can watch again and again. Some fans of foreign films or of this director will likely be disappointed by how "sappy" it is, which I can get, but I loved this movie despite any disneyesque qualities it has. It's very pretty to look at, it stirs up warm feelings and it may even leave you looking at garden gnomes differently.

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Summary of Amelie [VHS]

Perhaps the most charming movie of all time, Am?lie is certainly one of the top 10. The title character (the bashful and impish Audrey Tautou) is a single waitress who decides to help other lonely people fix their lives. Her widowed father yearns to travel but won't, so to inspire the old man she sends his garden gnome on a tour of the world; with whispered gossip, she brings together two cranky regulars at her caf?; she reverses the doorknobs and reprograms the speed dial of a grocer who's mean to his assistant. Gradually she realizes her own life needs fixing, and a chance meeting leads to her most elaborate stratagem of all. This is a deeply wonderful movie, an illuminating mix of magic and pragmatism. Fans of the director's previous films (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children) will not be disappointed; newcomers will be delighted. --Bret Fetzer

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