Movie #95: Amélie

Movie #: 95
Movie Title: Amélie
Year Released: 2001

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Notable Cast: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Raymond Dufayel

Short Description: 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. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: #64
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: #28
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: N/A



Date Watched: 6/30/2016

Grade: 2 out of 5 (Fair)

Rationale: The main character, Amélie, annoyed the hell out of me 90% of the time. While trying to fix other people’s problems she goes almost the entire movie actively and aggressively avoiding her own, specifically relating to a love interest she’s never talked to face to face because she’s so bizarre and timid. Literally, she concocts an elaborate plot to get this guy as far away from his scooter as possible, while still having a distant view of it, so he can see her return an item he lost because she can’t get over her own fear of talking to him and just hand him his item. WTF? The 10% of the time I didn’t mind Amélie was when she went Kevin McCallister from Home Alone on a rude shop keeper and rigged his house to mildly torture him as payback.