Amélie (2001)
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Movie review
From Time Out London
Arguably the quintessential subtitled film for people who don’t like subtitled films (it’d be a dust-up between this and ‘Cinema Paradiso’), Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s rose-tinted Parisian romance is wheeled out once more to celebrate its tenth anniversary. Likely to be the role for which actress Audrey Tautou will be remembered until her dying day, the film is all the more interesting for remaining an eccentric one-of-a-kind that feels every bit the product of its writer-director’s unique sensibility and worldview. Revisiting it now, it still has the same strengths and weaknesses: the experience of watching is still like being swept along on a tidal wave of cheeky jokes and oddball observations, yet it still feels overlong and at times a little saccharine.Author: David Jenkins
Time Out London Issue 2147: 13 – 19 October 2011
Cast & crew
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Producer: Claudie Ossard
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Yolande Moreau, Flora Guiet full cast
Genre(s): Fantasy
Duration: 123 mins
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