One of my friend - who owns a video rental place - recommended me this movie, because he knows that I'm a drama-comedy movies lover. He told me that I'm gonna like it. It's a French movie and very funny, he said.
Indeed, it's splendid!
In Indonesian original VCD the title shown "Amelie" but l it's original title is Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain which has meaning "The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain". Although it is in French but I do enjoy to watch it over and over again. The story, the plot, the players, the setting, etc are fabulous. And, it's very funny although there are some ironical things lie within.
Amélie tells about the story of a girl named Amélie Poulain (played by Audrey Tautou). It starts with the day she was born (September 3, 1973 in Enghien in the northern suburbs of Paris) . Her father was a former army physician and her mother was a school headmaster. Things the like and dislike. However, Amélie's childhood was different. She had no other siblings and could not go to the school just like other children (foolishly, it was caused by her father's mistaken concerns of a heart defect, while in fact her daughter was just nervous by her father touch which was very rare). So, being lived with a cold-hearted father and a neurotic-easily depressed mother, had led Amélie to resort to her own fantastical world and dreams of love and beauty.
Also at this age Amélie's mother died due to weird cause (a Québécoise woman who commits suicide by jumping off the top of Notre Dame Cathedral and lands on Amélie's mother) and her father spent most of his time by making garden's memorial dedicated to his wife.
Amélie moves to Paris when she becomes a young woman and works as a waitress in café Deux Moulins in Montmartre. She is still a different girl with her own isolation life. There she meets some few people who are going to be entwined in this story (people in Deux Moulins and the few people who live in the same apartment with her, absolutely with all their different stories, this also including her own father). And, decided to to change the lives of those around her for the better. It was begun from the breaking news of Lady Diana's death by accident (August 31, 1997) and a 40-years old box hidden in her bathroom wall which she found it coincidently!
From the purpose of finding the owner of the old box, this lovely girl has her own adventure of helping other people and meet a man (Nino Quincampoix, played by Mathieu Kassovitz) who loves collecting other people torn photographs at many fotobox in some Paris's railway stations.
Amélie falls in love with him and struggle for her own isolation and affection in her own different way.
Five stars for this!
Facts about this movie:
It was produced in 2001 by the Director of Jean-Pierre Jeunet. It was written by Jeunet and
Guillaume Laurant.
Amélie won best film at the European Film Awards; it won four César Awards (including Best Film and Best Director), two BAFTA Awards (including Best Original Screenplay), and was nominated for five Academy Awards. (See below for other awards and recognition.)
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