• ⇤
• ⇽
• ≡
• ⇾
• ⇥

movie review - Amélie

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

I last saw this movie about twenty years ago. Wait, just about exactly twenty years. I'm happy to report that it maintained the same sense of whimsy and conveyed the same frustrations and passions as in the first viewing(s). It turns out that this is France's most popular movie export, and I suppose I can see why. It's "French lite" rather than full-on like something that sounds engaging but then you want to kill yourself by the forty minute mark. Lite or not, it's a damn well-made movie and what I particularly liked is that despite being basically a rom-com it's so far off the beaten path and has so many characters from various walks of life that you feel like you're really in whatever neighborhood of Paris this film inhabits.

Strongly recommended.