Amelie

Chick Flick, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Audrey Tautou	Amélie Poulain
Mathieu Kassovitz	Nino Quincampoix
Rufus	Raphaël Poulain
Lorella Cravotta	Amandine Poulain
Serge Merlin	Raymond Dufayel
Jamel Debbouze	Lucien
Clotilde Mollet	Gina
Claire Maurier	Suzanne
Isabelle Nanty	Georgette
Dominique Pinon	Joseph
Maurice Benichou
Yolande Moreau

Director	Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Producer	Arne Meerkamp van Embden; Claudie Ossard
Writer	Guillaume Laurant; Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Perhaps the most charming movie of all time, Amélie is certainly one of the top 10. The title character (the bashful and impish Audrey Tautou) is a single waitress who decides to help other lonely people fix their lives. Her widowed father yearns to travel but won't, so to inspire the old man she sends his garden gnome on a tour of the world; with whispered gossip, she brings together two cranky regulars at her café; she reverses the doorknobs and reprograms the speed dial of a grocer who's mean to his assistant. Gradually she realizes her own life needs fixing, and a chance meeting leads to her most elaborate stratagem of all. This is a deeply wonderful movie, an illuminating mix of magic and pragmatism. Fans of the director's previous films (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children) will not be disappointed; newcomers will be delighted. --Bret Fetzer