SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

audrablum This week I chose to watch the comedy, romance Amelie (2001). The logline reads "Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love." There was a little more gratuitous nudity and sex scenes in the film than I cared for. I feel like most of these could be left out without missing anything in the movie. In spite of this, the movie was an exciting visual tale of a playful, yet extremely philosophical young woman named Amelie. Amelie spends a lot of time trying to help those around her and then scientifically trying to figure out how it all works together. In the process, she discovers something she can't figure-she can only feel. She finds love. Much of the writer seemed to make commentary about the world and how everything doesn't always amount to a black and white explanation, but instead there are so many grey areas that should be embraced for what they are and lived without being figured out. Much of the story of Amelie is about making human connection and that in the end love trumps all. The dialogue is all French with subtitles, so be prepared to read, but the story and writing are both good so it's not taxing. The acting was good, especially on Audrey Tautou's part. She really made this movie along with the artistic components. The art direction, editing, and directing are the trifecta that made this story twice as interesting. The cinematography and lighting were handled by Bruno Delbonnel who also worked on things like Across the Universe, Big Eyes, and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Overall, the story was interesting, the visuals were amazing, and I would recommend this movie to a friend.

gloriafranklyn Amelie is a great French movie combining the playful and eccentric nature so often deployed by period films when they're played out for fun. Audrey tatou is perfect for the titular character and the French capital has rarely looked as lovely. This film causes a stir when it was released in 2001 and you should have a look to see why. The dark comedic element, eccentric nature of the scenes and some great acting by Tatou should encourage you to do so.

cintiagodoips Sometimes I catch myself watching this movie again buy it's just for the cinematography, it starts out amazing on script and every single shot on the movie is beautiful but from the 40 minutes beyond it kinda loses himself on the story, it begins from the peculiarities of people and the small things but then it changes to a romantic comedy which I would say it seems kinda off from the beginning of the film. The mid-to-end is tolerable (mostly because of the GORGEOUS cinematography) I hoped to see more of that perception of how much the little things we do or like/dislike influences our daily lives instead of seeing amelie trying to get the guy who works at the sex shop

haventmadeupmymindyet The meaning of this movie is deeper that maybe not everyone will get it. Only the ones who can relate in a sort of way to Amélie will appreciate this unique movie.