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Okay it's a French film but don't run away yet because it's an absolutely fantastic, non-poncy, thoroughly brilliant French film.
(You can tell it's non-poncy because SR stock it)
It's directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet who you might know for "Alien Resurrection"... or "the Delicatessen" and "City of the Lost Children" if you like to watch French films.
Amelie is utterly wonderful. People moaned at Jeunet for portraying Paris in an unrealistic light, to which Jeunet replied that he was a film-maker and it was a story, the fabulous story of Amelie Poulain no less. It's the ultimate in feel-good films, but isn't too cutesy to make you sick.
Jeunet's trademark is a montage of scenes of people doing the same thing. In the Delicatessen he had people doing things in time to the creaking springs of the bed on which two people were making love and in this he shows a montage of people having orgasms, which is hilarious.
Another funny thing is that te dreamy love interest is played by Mathieu Kassovitz who directed "La Haine" a brutal portrayal of life in the Parisian ghettos, and police brutality. Here he is in lovey-dovey, doe-eyed mode and you'd never have guessed that he directed angry violent films...
You will love this film, so please give it a go, subtitles aren't too scary...
(You can tell it's non-poncy because SR stock it)
It's directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet who you might know for "Alien Resurrection"... or "the Delicatessen" and "City of the Lost Children" if you like to watch French films.
Amelie is utterly wonderful. People moaned at Jeunet for portraying Paris in an unrealistic light, to which Jeunet replied that he was a film-maker and it was a story, the fabulous story of Amelie Poulain no less. It's the ultimate in feel-good films, but isn't too cutesy to make you sick.
Jeunet's trademark is a montage of scenes of people doing the same thing. In the Delicatessen he had people doing things in time to the creaking springs of the bed on which two people were making love and in this he shows a montage of people having orgasms, which is hilarious.
Another funny thing is that te dreamy love interest is played by Mathieu Kassovitz who directed "La Haine" a brutal portrayal of life in the Parisian ghettos, and police brutality. Here he is in lovey-dovey, doe-eyed mode and you'd never have guessed that he directed angry violent films...
You will love this film, so please give it a go, subtitles aren't too scary...
I nearly bought this yesterday, but I chose Apocalypse Now Redux, a film I'll never ever watch due to its enormosity.
I was put off this film when it was decribed as being "very, very French".
I pictured men on cycles, onions round the neck, blue and white stripey t-shirts, going "Hoh-hih-hoh-hih-hoh-hih-hoh".
Okay, try to persuade me to watch it.
Is she fit?
Does she get naked?
I mean, that's the only reason foreigners make movies, right?
(Just kidding)
I pictured men on cycles, onions round the neck, blue and white stripey t-shirts, going "Hoh-hih-hoh-hih-hoh-hih-hoh".
Okay, try to persuade me to watch it.
Is she fit?
Does she get naked?
I mean, that's the only reason foreigners make movies, right?
(Just kidding)
Hell yes.
And "The Man Who Wasn't There".
It's Black and White but it's The Coen Bros.
And "The Man Who Wasn't There".
It's Black and White but it's The Coen Bros.
Okay it's a French film but don't run away yet because it's an absolutely fantastic, non-poncy, thoroughly brilliant French film.
(You can tell it's non-poncy because SR stock it)
It's directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet who you might know for "Alien Resurrection"... or "the Delicatessen" and "City of the Lost Children" if you like to watch French films.
Amelie is utterly wonderful. People moaned at Jeunet for portraying Paris in an unrealistic light, to which Jeunet replied that he was a film-maker and it was a story, the fabulous story of Amelie Poulain no less. It's the ultimate in feel-good films, but isn't too cutesy to make you sick.
Jeunet's trademark is a montage of scenes of people doing the same thing. In the Delicatessen he had people doing things in time to the creaking springs of the bed on which two people were making love and in this he shows a montage of people having orgasms, which is hilarious.
Another funny thing is that te dreamy love interest is played by Mathieu Kassovitz who directed "La Haine" a brutal portrayal of life in the Parisian ghettos, and police brutality. Here he is in lovey-dovey, doe-eyed mode and you'd never have guessed that he directed angry violent films...
You will love this film, so please give it a go, subtitles aren't too scary...
(You can tell it's non-poncy because SR stock it)
It's directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet who you might know for "Alien Resurrection"... or "the Delicatessen" and "City of the Lost Children" if you like to watch French films.
Amelie is utterly wonderful. People moaned at Jeunet for portraying Paris in an unrealistic light, to which Jeunet replied that he was a film-maker and it was a story, the fabulous story of Amelie Poulain no less. It's the ultimate in feel-good films, but isn't too cutesy to make you sick.
Jeunet's trademark is a montage of scenes of people doing the same thing. In the Delicatessen he had people doing things in time to the creaking springs of the bed on which two people were making love and in this he shows a montage of people having orgasms, which is hilarious.
Another funny thing is that te dreamy love interest is played by Mathieu Kassovitz who directed "La Haine" a brutal portrayal of life in the Parisian ghettos, and police brutality. Here he is in lovey-dovey, doe-eyed mode and you'd never have guessed that he directed angry violent films...
You will love this film, so please give it a go, subtitles aren't too scary...