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I saw this flick for the third time yesterday (coincidently exactly 5 years after the dodi-diana crash) and i get more and more overwhelmed everytime i see it. I share the exact same sense of thinking as that girl when it comes to relationships. |
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Quality flick that one. |
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i haven't seen it yet, it airs on september 4th if i remember... most people say it's great :) btw, the original (french) title of it was "the fabulous destiny of amélie poulain" (sic) ^^ |
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Good flick. Best to see it with someone you can swap fluids with afterwards. Singles need not apply--it could induce wrist slitting amongst the lonely. |
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"Singles need not apply--it could induce wrist slitting amongst the lonely." I saw it on my own (and am single). I loved it and was thoroughly depressed at the end of it. ("you are alone AND ITS ALL YOU OWN FAULT!!!") |
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For me (being French and living in Paris), Amélie was a bad trip flick and depicted all that is stereotypical, false and distastefully whimsical in the collective unconscious. The camera work (in your face zooms...) and photography was perfectly horrible, the acting terrible (apart from Jamel), and the purpose dubious... For me a good film depicts a certain quality of reality in a subtle way. |
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A couple weeks ago I got a good dose of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's talents with "City of Lost Children", "Delicatessen" and "Amelie" I thought Delicatessen was the best but Amelie was certainly the most smile enducing, feel good film of them all. I wish I knew French so I could've payed more attention to the film instead of doing a lot of reading. |
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If if you did know how to speak French you wouldn't be missing much, the dialogues are surprisingly poor, un poetical, childlike and irritating... Sorry for being a cynic! |
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"delicatessen" is his best.. one of my favourite films ever. MistahKurtz: "the dialogues are surprisingly poor, unpoetical, childlike and irritating..." well, dialogue in real life is unsurprisingly poor, unpoetical, childlike and irritating. I thought that was what you were looking for..? anyway, viewing all films with the idea that they should contain 'a certain quality of reality' will kill almost any film you'll see. |
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I haven't seen delicatessen yet. The only Jeunet film I've seen/own is Alien4 which is probably the weakest of the Alien series, not to say that I don't like it or anything. |
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I know it seems vague qrter! What really annoyed me about Amelie was the filming, the super zooms, the wild spinning of camera, wild pannings... I criticized the dialogues because they INTENDED to be poetical and meaningful when actually i found them trite and cheap. The film attempted to create a "certain poetical quality" but failed. |
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I don't speak French, so I couldn't say.. so what you're saying is the style of filming irritated you, which doesn't have that much to do with "realism". you probably mean you like a more terse, minimalistic style. |
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qrter....i shoulda known you'd seen delicatessen! such a subtle slice of life that one! it's a great flick, and despite MistahK not liking Amelie i thought it was adorable and i own the DVD =0) and whoever said you can't see it alone is wrong.....i think it give you hope for things yet to come....eh fleetmouse....that swapping of fluids comment paints quite a picture for me.....HAHAHAHA |
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Careful Mistah, when you're overly critical it makes it seem like you have some sort of vendetta against the film. The way you're bashing the movie, you make it sound like it's a Jim Carrey / Adam Sandler flick. Anyway, some of my favorite parts of Amelie were the beginning when all their likes and dislikes were shown. I loved the scene with the clouds! Oh and the garden gnome photos were hilarious. I mostly enjoyed the movie because Audrey Tautou was just so adorable, i'd have to make a conscious effort NOT to fall in love with her. |
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I haven't seen the film but dood, Audrey Tautou ? adorable ? erm ... no. That smile arrggh makes me want to rip it off her face. Ok I exaggerate but imho she is by no means adorable. |
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I was really touched by the part where she releases her goldfish into the stream and it looks up at her. I don't get touched that easy (oo-er missus etc. etc.) LeCoeur: as I said above, I love Delicatessen. the colours, the costumes, the sets, the music, the characters, the plot. I have it on video.. didn't you love The Limey too? that film is fukking incredible. I saw it in the cinema without knowing what it was about and it blew me away. found it secondhand on video and it just blew me away again. the switching from flashback to flashforwards is so intricate, beautiful rhythm in that film. and the images - wonderful. the old footage of Terence Stamp, the footage of his daughter, his singing (I have the OST, and the singing + bells is on there too). and the ending is so perfect. I'll stop now. |
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see the film. you'll (probably) think differently. |
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"Tell him I'm coming. Tell him I'm fucking coming." Great film. I saw it thinking it was some kind of comedy. The tailer had built it up into something it was not. Quite a sad film really. Of course, the ultimate stamp film is Priscilla but this was almost there. |
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It is one of my favorite films of all time. If you have not seen it, do so. If you have seen and don't like it, what is wrong with you? |
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i have it for about 6 months now, but i still haven't seen it |
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that line is so simple and already, its a classic. I loved Stamp in PQotD. amazing. The Limey is a better film than PQotD - it wins all just on a structural level. |
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I'll have to hire it although I was put off by the trailer (both French and US). |
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"A desert holiday, let's pack the drag away. You take the lunch and tea, I'll take the ecstasy. Fuck off you silly queer, I'm getting out of here. A desert holiday, hip hip hip hooray!" |
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god he was perfect in that. guy pierce was pretty awful. he made up for it in memento though.. |
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I should mention that the soundtrack to Amelie is well worth owning. I remember hearing that Jeunet came across Yann Tiersen's music by chance--someone was playing it on a train or something. It would have been a very different film without that music. |
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I loved that film, must go and buy the dvd actually.. so many quirky little things throughout.. Especially loved the likes and dislikes part at the beginning. Music was perfect for the film too. It's funny seeing peoples perceptions of films from their own country. I keep forgetting that people outside of Australia loved Pricilla, Queen of The Desert. Problem I have with Aussie films is that they're all too stereotypical in the sense that foreign countries will just see the stereotypes and continue to believe that what they see in them is really us. We dont all live in the desert, chasing crocodiles while dressed in drag! On the other side, I still see the humourous note to it all.. |
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