![]() ![]() Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet brings to life the world of Amelie with colors, masterful camerawork and a few special effects (Well, I have certainly felt like melting a couple of times too in my life!). ![]() We get to see and experience the world and especially Paris through the filtering eyes and fantasy of Amelie, A Paris that might feel small and limited on the screen but in fact is just as big as it is in the eyes of Amelie. I do not know any French at all, but I sure wish I was fluent watching this movie! Compared to most other films "Amelie" (and I will stick to "Amelie" since "Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" is a bit long to write) is based on a rather ordinary and plain story everyone can relate to, but it is given to us in a very special kind of way, mixed with wonderful little subplots and an almost chaotic amount of details. Sad to say so, but I believe it is the truth. ![]() Subtitles just does not bring full justice to a movie like this, and it is bound to scare off most of the audience not used to subtitled movies. This movies biggest crime, and yet its biggest asset, is that it is in French. Eventually I did get around to see it, though a small TV never does a film the same justice a theater does, and being a bit sceptic about the small hype this movie caused made me prejudice about it, but I must say I have never been so wrong before. Sitting here, long after in the aftermath, I might never forgive myself for missing that opportunity. To start off with, I heard a lot of good things about this movie when it was on the big screens but never got around to see it before it disappeared. ![]()
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