971 reviews
Sales Rank: 690

Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 122
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.6 x 0.7

MPN: DISD26075D
UPC: 786936180893
EAN: 0786936180893
ASIN: B0000640VO

Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: July 16, 2002
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Amelie is looking for love and perhaps for the meaning of life in general. We see her grow up in an original and slightly dysfunctional family. Now a waitress in central paris she interacts curiously with her neighbors and customers as well as a mysterious picture collector and one of his photo subjects. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 01/11/2005 Starring: Audrey Tatou Run time: 122 minutes Rating: R

Amazon.com
Perhaps the most charming movie of all time, Amelie 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 cafe; 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

Customer Reviews: Read 966 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Best movie Audrey Tautou has done January 6, 2009
The point of view for this movie, the narration and Audrey's superb acting make this one movie you simply have to have in your collection. If you don't know about Audrey, this one is the best introduction you could find. And the story line is creative, sweet, ironic and iconic. Very much worth the price. I loaned a copy to a friend and never got it back... so bought another copy as it makes a great gift!

5 out of 5 stars

Absolutely Charming !!! October 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is an instant classic. Directed with a retro and modern feelers entwined throughout every scene, Amelie pulls you in and again further still. This movie seems like a children's tale and would make a great film for such with proper edits. It finishes with a nice moral rub for shy or difficult to understand people embedded in a warm, gooey bed of personal satisfaction. "Nothing ventured, nothing gained."

5 out of 5 stars

2nd time viewing.. October 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I watched Amelie on DVD several years ago for fun, and really enjoyed it. Then a few weeks ago I finally ordered my own DVD and watched it again. It's great to watch even a second time thru, probably because it's hard to catch everything the first time. And that's because many of the good parts of Amelie are very brief, especially in the first 20 minutes or so when Amelie's childhood & teenhood are shown in a pretty fast pace. Just like how the official summary of the movie describes Amelie, she is "painfully shy" but also playful & enthusiastic with her eccentric hobbies, like skipping stones (as well as "stealing" nice skipping stones throughout the movie XD), and helping people out.

As for the content of the movie, the story has some elements of intrigue & mystery, and with the shy-yet-mischievous Amelie character wanting to do things in her indirect ways, a lot of light-hearted action takes place while these little "mysteries" are solved. Overall it starts off as a comedy, with bits of adult content (brief showings of nude breasts & non-explicit sex scenes), a few fun fantasy elements like inanimate photos & animal-objects talking to her, and gradually turns into a light, adorable romantic comedy in the 2nd half. She and her love interest are based on a curious crush on each other, with their main goal being to simply find out more of each other, without meeting, yet. XD (As opposed to typical romantic comedies where the main characters hook up, fight, get back together, have dramas, then FINALLY get back together.)

Another thing to note about this movie is the presentation. The style is very artistically composed, with colors being selected & saturated to get an almost toy-like world in some scenes. The various characters have distinct personalities, from an obnoxiously bossy vendor to a quiet, wise painter.

Overall, people who are tired of typical romantic comedies will like how eccentric this movie is. Shy/quiet people will relate to Amelie's interests & personality, as this is a very "character-driven" movie.

5 out of 5 stars

j'adore! October 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

i love this movie so much. finally a happy-go-lucky movie with charm that'll make you laugh and feel all warm and fuzzy inside! :)

1 out of 5 stars

Alert. If you're looking for wholesome, this is not really it. September 24, 2008
2 out of 21 found this review helpful

In my humble opinion this would have been a precious movie except for a few things, like...the frontal nudity and shots of people making out. Then there is the idea that people can live happily ever after if they fall into bed after barely knowing one another. Stuff like that. Doesn't work for me. If you can believe it, you will enjoy this movie. As for me I'm reeeeeally glad I watched a cheap used copy before I gave a DVD as a gift to a teenage relative - since I had gotten the impression elsewhere that this was a safe bet.

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