To a point, this looks to be a correctly done version of Pay It Forward with smart special effects and visuals akin to Heavenly Creatures.

A miraculous change takes place (finding a hidden box of photos and mementos) which sends her on her way to making that change and helping others around her do the same. The film Amelie is a story of a rather bored cafe waitress in Paris who is attempting to find some meaningĪnd direction to her life. Most people who've I've spoken to about his previous works really didn't know what to say about them because, in their own little way, they were hard to wrap a simple description around them. Jeunet's previous films included Delicatessen, City of Lost Children and, yes, Alien: Resurrection, and each were, to put it lightly to those who really 'looked' at the film, were eye-ball overloading, sense tingling, art-on-film exposes. Amelie (or Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain as it was released in France in April), a film by visionary (and that word is true in this case) director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and scored by musician Yann Tiersen is, to say the least, a stunning visual feast with a simple but interesting story tying it all together. However, from what I've read, heard, and in the case of this review, listened to, I recommend that you shouldn't skip it if it's available in your area.

area showing this film, and that theater being some distance away, I'm opting on waiting to see it for a few more days.

However, with only one theater in the Metro-D.C. Now I have to predicate my review in mentioning that I had all but good intentions of seeing this film this weekend.

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