This film is inspiring on so many levels, not the least of which is how it manages to draw you in to the emotions of the protagonist by showing nothing more than a child amusing herself with home-made toys of a lost era in the first minutes of montage.
Amelie's emotionally deprived and bizarre childhood seem at first to be preparing her to become a modern urban casuality a la the glass-man who paints copies of the same painting year after year, the bitter produce seller, the weeping tippler widow or the hypochondriac tobacco seller. But her charm, beauty, piercing insight and natural openness work in her favor as she battles her own tendency to withdraw.
Finding a box of lost trinkets, she sets out to restore them to the rightful owner. That good deed and the emotional transformation she witnesses seem to set her on a path to right wrongs having to do with personal loss and alienation that she sees in her fellow parisians, not the least of which is her widower father whose only emotional tie is with a garden gnome.
When love beckons Amelie, she is not at all prepared for the chances she must take. It is hilarious and heart-warming to see her pursue and hide from the object of her desire, an eccentric wounded artist of a man who collects discarded photos from train stations and works part-time in a porn shop.
This movie is a pure delight. Scenes of Montmatre and other parts of Paris often neglected in films evoke a wonderful feeling of that city for anyone who has visited, lived in Paris or left a part of their heart there.
Go see it!~
Amelie's emotionally deprived and bizarre childhood seem at first to be preparing her to become a modern urban casuality a la the glass-man who paints copies of the same painting year after year, the bitter produce seller, the weeping tippler widow or the hypochondriac tobacco seller. But her charm, beauty, piercing insight and natural openness work in her favor as she battles her own tendency to withdraw.
Finding a box of lost trinkets, she sets out to restore them to the rightful owner. That good deed and the emotional transformation she witnesses seem to set her on a path to right wrongs having to do with personal loss and alienation that she sees in her fellow parisians, not the least of which is her widower father whose only emotional tie is with a garden gnome.
When love beckons Amelie, she is not at all prepared for the chances she must take. It is hilarious and heart-warming to see her pursue and hide from the object of her desire, an eccentric wounded artist of a man who collects discarded photos from train stations and works part-time in a porn shop.
This movie is a pure delight. Scenes of Montmatre and other parts of Paris often neglected in films evoke a wonderful feeling of that city for anyone who has visited, lived in Paris or left a part of their heart there.
Go see it!~
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