Film Review

Title: The fabulous destiny of Amelie Poulain.

Director: Jean-Pierre Jenuet

Starts: 5/5

Where/when it’s set: 1973 – 1997 France

Brief summary of the plot: “Amelie, Is an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, who decides to help those around her and along the way discovers love”. IMDB

Who it would appeal to: It’s a story of live; it suits to dreamers who are always looking for something different.

A film I have always enjoyed is The fabulous destiny of Amelie Poulain. It’s a French and German production launched in 2001. For luck the first time I watched it was on a TV channel, it was a Sunday afternoon in a cinema special. This movie was directed by Jean-Pierre Jenuet and it stars Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz and Rufus.

The Director does quite a deep psychological description of every single character. The main ones are a French girl called Amelie, her family, neighbors and future love. The director starts to show us her story before her birth. She comes from a non-traditional French family and his father - a doctor - thinks she has a heart disease then he isolates her, as a result, her mother - a teacher - gives her private classes at home. As a lonely girl Amelie decides to live in her own fantasy, the fantasy she makes to live the viewers while the movie lasts.

Amelie’s adventure is to help the people, as she says: “It's better to help people than garden gnomes”. While she lives the dream of save the world, as she can do it, we can follow the rhythm of her life by the agile voice of a narrator and the sweet sound of the music composed by Yann Tiersen. Moreover she gets pleasure from helping the community and she enjoys doing it in her own way. A guy who lost a mysterious photo album - which Amelie found – publishes and ad, but, she prefers to do a game of this delivery.

Definitely Amelie is a movie I’d recommend to everyone who wants to remember the magic of being a kid. This movie shows us the age isn’t important to define the way we live and it invites us to keep the magic.

By: Diana Atehortúa S