AMÉLIE (2001)

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AMÉLIE: This joyous masterpiece about life in a few blocks in Paris is by writer director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen, Alien: Resurrection). In this whimsical romantic comedy, pretty but neurotic heroine Amélie (Audrey Tautou), a shy waitress in a Montmartre cafe, does a life altering good deed and enjoys it so much she obsesses on doing anonymous good deeds. (Her hero is Zorro.)

The hilarious start has her tracking down the owner of a small box of boyhood treasures hidden 40 years ago in her bathroom wall. Then there is her morose father, who spends his days making garden gnomes and décor for his long dead wife’s grave. Amélie finds a way to stir his interest in travel.

She helps many others, too. But Amélie needs to fix her own life. She takes a shine to Nino (Mathieu Kassovitz), a creative fellow who collects rejected scraps from around public photo booths for a collage of humanity. She sort of pursues him through the city with notes and mystery phone calls, gently leading him to a happy ending.

Amélie has been a mega hit in France and likely will win some foreign film honors here this spring. It’s an art film, shot in roughly 80 different Paris locations and full of cinema tricks fast and slow motion, statues with flashing eyes, and black and white movies that Amélie imagines in her head. It also has an amiable narrator who wryly describes the peculiarities of the neighborhood characters, including a lady who’s sleeping all year so she can stay up all next year.

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