Did you think "Amelie" was a good movie?

Question

What is your opinion? Do you think that they choose a good actress (Audrey Tautou) to play Amelie? If it were made in english, who would you want to play the characters?

I loved that mmovie so much that when i went to paris i went to the cafe were she worked. I loved the scene were she smiles and holds up a spoon

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I liked the film very much. I thought it was a very nice and (some parts) emotional movie. You could watch it on a Sunday afternoon with you family or friends...

Answer 2

I think Amelie was a fabulous movie! Audrey Tautou was perfect for the role being both cute and charming as well as demure and common. She could have been anyone which is exactly what the film needed. I don't think Hollywood would be able to remake this movie with any success. The USA is too image focused to allow for plainer leads.Hollywood rarely makes a movie that doesn't have something explode in it so again they would likely ruin Amelie by trying to "spice it up". For the sake of the question I'd pick Natalie Portman as Amelie because her beauty is very down to earth and natural. As for Nino....Maybe Zach Braff as long as Nino isn't made to talk much.

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Yes, the actress was perfect for that role. In English, I would still say Audrey Tautou...although it's a classic the way it is and even though I don't speak French, I would hate to see it changed or remade

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I love the film. But I admit that i'm a big fan of foreign films in general (they seem to express so much more about how life really is, then American movies that are just more interested in merely trying to entertain you). Audrey was perfect for the role, and that's one of many reasons why the film is as good as it is. I own the DVD and the CD (one of the greatest all time film scores ever, by Yann Tierson).

Answer 5

I loved Amelie. I don't think it would be the same in English, I liked it just the way it was.

Answer 6

It is, without doubt, one of the very best and most intelligent films of the past 10 years

Answer 7

I heard its good so I want to watch it

Answer 8

I think I saw this but I can't remember what it's about.

Answer 9

I've never seen that movie.

Answer 10

I love that movie.

it`s romantic and misterious.

Amélie is the story of Amélie Poulain, a girl who grows up isolated from other children by Raphaël, her taciturn doctor father, due to his mistaken belief that she suffers from a heart condition (a mistake in fact resulting from the increase in her heartbeat caused by the rare thrill of physical contact by her father, who only ever touches her during medical check-ups). Her mother (who is just as neurotic as her father) dies when Amélie is young, victim of a freak accident involving a suicidal Québécoise who throws herself off the top of Notre Dame Cathedral and lands on Amélie's mother, causing her father to withdraw even further (and devote his life to building a rather eccentric shrine to his late wife). Left to amuse herself, Amélie develops an unusually active imagination.

When she grows up, Amélie becomes a waitress in a small Montmartre café, The Two Windmills, run by a former circus performer. The café is staffed and frequented by a gang of eccentrics. By age 22, life for Amélie is simple; having spurned romantic relationships following a few failed efforts, she has devoted herself to simple pleasures, such as cracking crème brûlée with a teaspoon, going for walks in the Paris sunshine, skipping stones across St. Martin's Canal, trying to guess how many couples in Paris are having an orgasm at one moment ("Fifteen!", she informs the camera), and letting her imagination roam free.

Her life changes on the same day that Princess Diana dies. Following a series of circumstances resulting from her shock at the news, behind a loose bathroom tile she finds an old metal box of childhood memorabilia hidden by a boy who lived in her apartment decades ago. Fascinated by the find, she resolves to track down the now grown-up man who put it there and return it to him, making a deal with herself in the process: if she finds him and it makes him happy, she will devote her life to goodness. If not, too bad.

She meets her reclusive neighbor Raymond Dufayel, a painter who continually repaints Luncheon of the Boating Party (Le Déjeuner des canotiers) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He is known as 'the Glass Man' because of his brittle bone condition. With his help, she tracks the former occupant down, and places the box in a phone booth, ringing the number as he passes to lure him there. Upon opening the box, the man has an epiphany as long-forgotten childhood memories come flooding back. She trails him to a nearby bar and observes him secretly. On seeing the positive effect she had on him, she resolves from that moment on to do good in the lives of others. Amélie becomes something of a secret matchmaker and guardian angel, as she persuades her father to follow his dream of touring the world (with help from his garden gnome and an air-hostess friend), her co-workers and friends (two of whom she sets up), the concierge of her building, and Lucien, the boy who works for the bullying owner of the neighborhood vegetable stand (Mr. Collignon, upon whom Amélie delights in playing pranks).

However, while she is looking after others, no one is looking after Amélie. In helping other people achieve happiness, she is forced to examine her own lonely life - made ever more apparent and painful by her relationship with Nino Quincampoix, a quirky young man who collects the discarded photographs of strangers from passport photo booths, with whom she has fallen in love. Although she intrigues him through her various roundabout methods of attraction (including something like a treasure hunt for one of his forgotten photo albums), she is painfully shy and incapable of actually approaching him. It will take Raymond's friendship to teach her to pursue her own happiness whilst still ensuring that of her friends and neighbours.