Amélie (2001)

Academy Awards, USA 2002

Nominated Oscar	Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Guillaume Laurant Jean-Pierre Jeunet
	Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Aline Bonetto (art director) Marie-Laure Valla (set decorator)
	Best Cinematography Bruno Delbonnel
	Best Sound Vincent Arnardi Guillaume Leriche Jean Umansky
	Best Foreign Language Film France.

Miramax
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Miramax)

Precocious child turns into quirky young woman who decides to perform random acts of kindness towards strangers in her home town of Paris. For example, she goes to great lengths to track down a middle aged man in order to return a box of toys she found stashed away in his old apartment. Later she falls in love with a young man who collects discarded photo booth pictures and tapes them back together again, but has no idea how to go about telling him. Quirky, clever, self-conscious and dare I say annoying "fable". Shot in a high contrast, sickly green hue for a nightmarish effect at odds with the film's unrelenting optimism.