Sunday, August 7, 2011

Movie Review 01:Amélie

Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
This is the original title of the French movie "Amélie". This was the 1st Non english European movie i watched one summer many years ago. This film is important for me because of the characterization of Amelie became the basis from which I would develop my personality on for many years to come.
This is a story of Amelie(Audrey Tautou) who is been misdiagnosed for heart disease so home tutored and being a jail bird all through her childhood with a widowed father. She goes on to Paris to work as a waitress in a cafe. Life goes on but she could not find any zeal in her life with no real contact with people around her.Then she watches Princess Diana's death on telly and changes her attitude to help everyone she knows and some whom she doesnt know yet.
A lot of fantasy has been intermixed with reality, romance and humour. But this is such a feel good movie. It was like walking in the sunshine with the grass underneath.
Audrey Tautou is Amelie I cannot differentiate that it was a act. The music score is apt for the situation. Nothing went overboard. This is one of the best movies of the decade.
Amelie even thought released 10 years before addresses the fact that even though we are in a global village we don't have enough human touch. The need to help a blind person on the road, the courtesy to ask a depressed land lady and being insecure that the world may forget you once you leave .......



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