FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Amelie 

Amelie Poulain, a cheerful fantasy about a girl with a sad childhood, who grew up to be a shy woman, to cheer up the needy and give herself the greatest joy. It's one of those movies that makes you smile, you think about it afterwards. Amelie Poulain, this is Audrey Tautou. She looks like someone who knows a secret (but can't keep it). As a girl, she hungers for love because her father never kisses or caresses her. As a doctor, he only touches her when he examines her daughter, which in turn makes her tremble with happiness. Her mother committed suicide in Notre Dame (but that doesn't reveal as much about the plot as we would expect from this symbolism). Anyway, Amelie grew up lonely and alone. She works as a waitress in a bistro. It was the death of Princess Diana that changed her whole life. Amelie is shocked to drop a teapot and knock a hole in the floor. She finds a boy's box that traces his whole life. Amelie decides at this moment to make other people happy. And in every respect! That in turn would give her a life full of joy. Who still remembers how Amelie wasn't allowed to run in Cannes (too little serious, according to the serious explanation), but then the audience was enraptured at festivals and rated number 54 of the best films on imdb. That says a lot about Amelie, who gives people so much pleasure and kindness. Virtuously staged in a Paris that is not the "real" modern one, but one we know from fairy tales. A clean, colourful, luminous Paris as it was designed in Hollywood in the 50s and never existed. So Amelie gives the owner of the box his happiness and decides to do it with other people. Then she meets Nino (Mathieu Kassovitz), who works in a porn shop. Nino has a strange hobby: he collects the pictures of photo machines that have been thrown away and makes missed collages from them. Nino sees Amelie in her cafe and she literally dissolves (in the true sense!). She is in love with Nino, but much too shy to talk to him (Amelie instead becomes a true stalker). Amelie Poulain, a masterpiece full of ideas. For example the picture Amelies on Montmartre. She wonders how many Parisians have an orgasm at the same time? Then we see them all in an amusing montage. Of course, as a video store I don't produce films myself, I just watch them. Nevertheless, I can imagine that there is nothing more difficult than to make such an agile and charming comedy! A tightrope act full of kitsch and quirks and Jean-Pierre Jeunet manages everything! Amelie Poulin becomes our girlfriend, the film becomes a single invitation.