Amelie (2001) Reaction & Commentary - First Time Watching - Happy Valentine's Day, Everyone!
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Hope you enjoy my first time watching Jean-Pierre Jeunet's AMELIE (2001) starring Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz and Rufus.
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Amelie, for me, is more 'real' and human than most stuff that comes out of Hollywood.
It is kinda funny to consider that the nation that gave us the nouvelle vague is not founded on realism but the cinema that gave us Star Wars is...
absolutely
So true , thankfully they didn't over dub American dialogue on to it as is often the case.
The guy with the tin box, I don't think that she couldn't face him. I think she wanted to preserve the sense of wonder and serendipity for him.
The soundtrack of this movie is awesome.
I've watched this movie back when it came out and me and my then girlfriend were big fans. Years later, in 2009, I spent a few months living in Paris and got the chance to visit the cafe - it's called Deux Moulins, they kept it as it was in the movie and it had several easter eggs for the movie, including a handful of the gnome polaroids taped to the bathroom mirror. And the food was pretty good. It was a nice, surreal experience. :)
Can confirm it was still that way in 2014 as well. I explored all of Montemarte to discover many of the film locations as possible!
It is a one of a kind movie. Everyone should experience it. Charming is the perfect word.
I love that the actor who plays the love interest also directed La Haine, a VERY different film.
Amelie is a movie that I HAVE to watch on a regular basis. It grounds me. It helps remind me that there's more to life and love.
I remember I went to see this movie when it came out in 2001 in my hometown in Bordeaux with my parents and sister. When I came out, I was smiling widly and wanted to hug everyone. I loved and still love this film.
I had exactly the same feeling directly after leaving the cinema. Pure happiness, wihout any specific thought or agenda, just being happy and wanting to spread the happiness around ♥
After all these years, this magical movie still drives me instantly to tears of joy 🥰
This movie is such a treat: funny, quirky, warm and wonderful, just like Amelie. I adore this movie!😊
And what she does to Mr Collignon is pure genius and just evil enough for a schmuck like him. 😁
there is more out there than just hollywood. most movies i like are arthouse movies that come from europe. amelie goes straight to your heart. it is surrealistic but at the same time its the most pure human message to us all. we all have been there, wishing the world would be a better place or being influental in our community surrounding us, connecting with people, their dreams, hopes, memories. finding love, do good things, being helpfull and precious to everyone. this movie captures everything in this little fairytale like no hollywood production could have done better. its a masterpiece i watched many times and every time it warms my heart again.
I saw an interview with Amelie director and he said they CG colored everything making frames look more green and more red, red representing love and passion, green representing life, youth and changes. And how about wonderful music? Beautiful.
Semi Funny Story - about 10 years before Amelie was made, my grandparents lived in a small town. One of the local restaurants had a 3 foot tall sign made of wood of an aminated pig wearing overalls and a farmer's hat holding a sign with the name of the restaurant and pointing to the building. Every day the owners would set the pig sign out by the side of the road and every night they would take the pig sign back inside. My grandmother was very close to her sister (my mom's aunt who I also called my aunt) and my aunt and uncle would travel from where they lived (on the coast) to visit my grandparents (who lived several hours away). One time my aunt and uncle were driving to my grandparents at night and passed by the pig restaurant and the pig sign was left out by the side of the road. My uncle did not want it to get stolen so he stopped and picked it up and took it to my grandparent's house, planning to return it in the morning when they went to that restaurant for breakfast (that was my grandparent's favorite restaurant). The next morning when they woke up and turned on the local news, the first story was that the pig sign had been stolen! The local news interviewed the restaurant owners, they interviewed the local police chief and they even interviewed the mayor of the city. My uncle was ornery and said "how do they know the pig was stolen? what if the pig ran away? what if the pig wanted a vacation... he's been working every day at that restaurant for years!" So my uncle and aunt took the pig home with them. On the way home they stopped by the Grand Canyon, and took a picture of the pig sign at the Grand Canyon like the pig was a tourist there. They sent the photo of the pig at the Grand Canyon to the restaurant. When they reached home, they took the pig to the Santa Monica Pier and took pictures. They took the pig to the entrance to Disneyland and took pictures. The pig sign visited the Hollywood Sign and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. They took a trip to San Francisco and took pictures of the pig at the Golden Gate Bridge and at Alcatraz and on a trolley car. Every other week, my uncle would sent one photo of the pig sign at a different place. My aunt and uncle still visited my grandparents for one weekend each month and thought it was funny because the restaurant made a bulletin board displaying the pig sign adventure photos. There was a betting pool at the restaurant about where the pig would visit next. The photos the pig sent were published in the local newspaper and shown on the local tv news. My grandparents and my aunt and uncle would visit the restaurant and ask the owners about the pig photos. After about two years of this, my uncle ran out of ideas of places for the pig to visit and told my grandfather that he was planning to return the pig soon. My grandfather was at a bar at a party and was drunk and was talking with the restaurant owner and accidently mentioned everything about the pig sign. The sign was returned, and now if you visit that small town, the pig sign is still put outside every day and taken inside every night, except now it has a heavy duty chain attached to it that is anchored to the ground. Years later I would see the movie Amelie and think about this story.
Best comment ever! Thks!!!!!
Since JP Jeunet has made one Hollywood film (Alien resurrection) a few years before Amélie, he might quite possibly have heard this story by word of mouth or even on a TV documentary about unusual events. And you can see how he's fond of random original videos though this film. Maybe this story has inspired him for the travelling garden gnome...
Wonderful
@@chucku00 There have been several know prank involving item taken "on a tour" with pictures send to their owner before this movie, any could have inspired Jeunet.
European film making is incredibly diverse and completely different to what most American viewers are accustomed to. You got a dip into French films here but I'll quickly list some of my favourites from the 4 other major film producing countries that I can remember off the top of my head.
Spain: All about my mother
Italy: Cinema Paradiso
Germany: The lives of Others
Denmark: Breaking the Waves
'All About My Mother' is a wonderful film. I first watched it with my son when he was studying it for Spanish 'A' level...it's a real gem.
Cinema Paradiso is one of my favourite films ❤️ it made me cry and I loved it
Watching Neil rooting for Amélie was more fun than watching the American super bowl tonight 😂 I highly recommend a Belgian film called Toto the Hero, winner at Cannes around 1989, also Oscar nominated I think. Equally whimsical.
Thanks Neil - It's my first time watching Amelie. I really enjoyed it and going to watch it again - I always felt lonely when I was a married woman, I hated it. Now I actually love my own company. There is a big difference between being alone and being lonely.
🤗❤️
The film is not called Amélie but the fabulous destiny of Amélie Poulain.
The cinematography is gorgeous.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen, City of Lost Children) is one of the greatest French directors of all time, but "Amelie" was the victim of some very bad timing: it premiered in the U.S. in September 2001, and 9/11 robbed this masterpiece of the attention it so richly deserved.
You’re right about how different and maybe even disconcerting watching French film can be for us. I love the way French film can have silence in them that no Hollywood film would ever dare to have.
I’m old enough to have seen this film when it came out and when I was in Paris, like so many others, I went to that tobacconist near the Moulin Rouge and took a few selfies.
I appreciate your reflections and comments here.
I simply LOVE this movie! And Audrey Tatou is just..... Sigh..... So beautiful.
I remember being at the first display in my town . Got interviewed at the exit for TV. Anyways, this film reconciled me with cinema. I was missig the emotions. Thanks for your reaction, great work.
i ADORE this movie. i tear up just listening to the music :3
I think you would really appreciate "Delicatessen", by the same directors. It's a little bit "edgier", but the same quirky humor . "The city of lost children" is to me their best work, if you like steampunk/fairy tale aesthetic.
Also, a lot of the same actors appear in all of these films. "The city of the lost children" is great indeed
These are truely captivating arthouse movies.
Agree, City of Lost Children is one of my favorite films of all time.
Caro had nothing to do with Amelie. This is strictly Jeunet.
@@Dacre1000 Good point! I had no idea. I just assumed Caro was co-directing.
Watched this twice in a row the first I saw it, has never happend before or since. Bought myself the DVD 15 years ago, will probably watch it tomorrow 14 Feb.
Me too :-)
You've got a french viewer here ! o/ Bonjour !
Awesome reaction as always! I absolutely adore the way this film transposes normal, everyday occurrences onto a whimsical/fairytale-like setting. The jet-setting gnome is probably my favorite subplot :) Never fails to make me smile!
When i was about 7 my dad was house sitting for friends while they were traveling and they had a gnome😂 he photoshopped it to make it look like he was on vacation and hung the pics on their walls. 20years later it still makes me giggle
It was her friend that was a air hostess taking the gnome
This is my favorite movie, it's so difficult to find reactions to it
Against all odds, in the earlier 2000's I think this was the highest rated movie on IMDB
Amelie is a "Strange lovely Cinema "🎵❤️& Music 🎀
Next up react to "A Very Long Engagement" (also with Tautou and a lot of other people of this film) It uses kind of the same charming techniques. But for a much more dark story. Also by using this dark story it manages to be even more hopeful.
"Failure is human's destiny"............. "what a french sentiment". You said it all ) And it's so deeply true. We're, we think, we breathe this way.
I love this film so much, thank you for a lovely reaction. There are not a lot of reactions and the ones I have seen find the film too odd. I absolutely adore this quirky film!!
Great reaction to an excellent film. What a pleasant surprise. As an extreme introvert, I fully appreciate how incredibly frustratingly slow it is for Amélie to break her habit of retreating, and I think the fairytale feel to this--and the incredible charm that Tautou brings to the role--helps elevate it.
As a side note, I believe the original title to the film is The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain, which certainly enhances that fantastical element of it. I sort of understand and also sort of hate the American trend of neutralizing interesting foreign film titles. (Or worse, trying to make generic action titles from more interesting ones, such as changing Danny the Dog to Unleashed, which is a movie recommendation I'll throw your way of you haven't seen it.)
Yay! So excited to see this reaction. 'Amelie' is one of my all-time fav movies!!! 😍 Thanks for reacting to this. 💕
The film is not called Amélie but the fabulous destiny of Amélie Poulain.
@@thomasharter8161 in the U.S. it was just called "Amelie" for whatever reason. 🤷🏻♀️
@@willowbeederouaux4750 The main reason is laziness. As a ''coup d'état'' becomes a coup. A “fille au pair” becomes an au pair etc etc...
@@thomasharter8161 Well, being from the U.S., I can't say I'm surprised it's due to laziness! 🤦♀
Just this month the Korean pop singer Taeyon put out a music video where she's dressed up to resemble Amelie on a train station stage set. This film still has an effect 21 years later.
Thanks for your reaction ! And yes, you've actually got french audience. I send you a hello from Lyon ( capitale of gastronomy and city of Louis and Auguste Lumière Who invented cinéma 😊)
I love Amelie, european cinema has a lot to offer. I am from Poland, so I recommend you the Polish movie Ashes and Diamonds (1958) by Andrzej Wajda. This is one of Martin Scorsese's favorite movies.
Beautiful reaction to a film I love, almost felt like I was watching it for the first time again!!
One of the best Amélie reviews I've ever seen
Thank you for watching & reviewing! This movie has my heart. It’s so fun watching it anew through your eyes & perspective.
Glad you liked it. It is a very french and charming film.
I once saw the dvd cover for this film years back as a kid and the woman's mile always creeped me out, and I always thought it was a horror film because of it... It's nice to stumble across this years later to see it's actually a lovely, whimsical film. This was a pleasant video to watch, thanks for the upload. You have a new fan here.
I love Amelie, I think about this story as an example of showing inside world/ inside personality parts of one's shown here as a building with different neighbors: we have Amelie's sad and lonely part (lady that is sad about her longlost husband), also her fragile sociophobic part + creative and artistic part (glass man), plus her awkward special autistic part (disabled young assistant) and even her part that is cruel to herself (mean veggie store owner). After all main conflict of a story is her inside conflict not any outside villain etc. :-)
Fantastic reaction, Neil. Happy Valentine's Day, everyone (and Superbowl Sunday to the Americans)! Take care of yourselves.
I came to this charming film over 20 years ago, as I loved Delicatessen and City of Lost Children so much before it. i would place Amelie above the latter and very nearly as good as the former. It's the 14th tomorrow and i might just watch them both again (me being an old fashioned type mired in dvds).
Thank you 🙂
I was already a fan of Jeunet and Caro when I saw this but it hit the sweet spot of melding the fantastic and the ordinary. It made you feel as if the world was connected by mysterious, romantic coincidences. I love this movie!
I always think of Amelie as a covertly sad movie with a hopeful ending. Everyone is lonely but Amelie watches it all in intense colours.
As a french i can say, if you liked it, have a watch of "au revoir là haut", very French, very sensitive like amelie you will enjoy it, it's a french's gem
19:50 I think the word you may be looking for is whimsical, it describes most of Jean-Pierre Jeunets work.
The only reason I knew about this film was because I learned a couple of Yan Tiersen's piano pieces at school. Every piano player in our music department knew how to play "Comptine d'Un Autre Été", so I gave the film a shot. I don't remember being enamoured with it, but the score is lovely.
Loved seeing this again, now go and look at Delicatessen by the same director. earlier and much more extreme. Have you ever heard of Tati? I'm English living in France since 35 years and am submerged in this wonderful culture xxx
Amelie is such a beautiful film! Great film choice and video Neil.
I really enjoyed hearing your thoughts and analysis on the characters and filmmaking style.
You want to to see more from this director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, check out his 1995 film,
“The City of Lost Children”.
It’s one of my personal favorite films of all time.
And s long as we’re talking about foreign language films with foreign language sensibilities,
I highly recommend the Hong Kong director, Wong Kar-Wai.
And the quintessential Wong Kar-Wai film,
“Fallen Angels” (1995).
Wong Kar-Wai’s most well known film in the west is probably “In the Mood For Love”. But I’m telling you,
“Fallen Angels” is the perfect film to be introduced to his work. It encapsulates stylistically all in one film everything that
Wong Kar-Wai is known for as a filmmaker.
Wong Kar-Wai is such a unique and unorthodox talent.
He was making films in Hong Kong during the creative boom.
Wong Kar-Wai stood apart though for his auteur vision and became the darling of the world art house scene.
He is an extraordinary director! “Fallen Angels” is my favorite film from him.
I do hope you check it out for the channel some time.
Misieu le Cancompois he was the holdup guy in The Fifth Element, give me the casssssss.
In the 70s and 80s there was a literary movement called Magical Realism that put extraordinary situations as normal and earthly things. Amelie is one of those films that address magic as something common in a story... the same as Benjamin Button.
Good point about different film languages, I didn't think about it quite like that.
Nice video.
J'aime beaucoup ce film 😊
Thx for reacting to this, I love it!
This one is great. It would be funny to see your reaction to watching it a second, third and fourth time. You will always discover new wonderful nuggets that you missed the first time.
One of my favorite movies. And love your reaction. All best from Germany
Love this movie. My heart gets warm.
Jean Pierre Jeunet knows how to drive whimsy - "Micmacs" 2009
and I don't care what they say, I liked what he did with "Alien: Resurrection" 1997
This film is so warm and engaging and characterful. I dont mean to be an elitist but I really dont like most modern films, they just reek of bland film execs who use the same old boring style and plotpoints that have no soul. I wish more films were like Amelie.
If you ever want to whatch an absolutely great German film (that happens to have the same music as Amelie) then watch 'Goodbye Lenin'. Its so great and has a lot of character as well, if more Germanic than French.
"cooped up" I get that too. Thx.
Excellent soundtrack. Highly recommend checking out French musician and composer Yann Tiersen, that composed this soundtrack.
There was an extreme Aesthetic break in Eoropean flm following the second world war. The French new wave s the best known of these national film renaissances. There were similar mini-booms in Poland (which gave us Polanski) and New German cnema (that gave us Wenders among others). In Italy it was Italian Neo realism. Film makers from all these countres attempted to fns a new way of telling stories. Directors like Jean-Pierre Jeunet were handed a tradition of breaking the American mold when it came to telling stories. I loved Amélie, as did my teen aged son when we watched it together. I'm so proud that he has the open mindedness to embrace older Hollywood movies and foreign films equally on their own terms.
Being half french I understand the film language. You should check out a little clip on Eddie izzard
Brits Vs American movies. He also happens to speak French!
LOVE Eddie Izzard! 🤩
I saw this at the theatre when it came out. Loved it.
There was a Belgian movie called "The Brand New Testament" not so long ago that's in a similar vein.
"An unabashedly French film" is right, Neil! It's semi-linear, with somewhat mysteriously connected vignettes, but has enough locale and time jumps to keep it interesting ... and a bit befuddling. Amelie isn't an "easy woman." Like her father, Amelie cannot take the step to enter a new world -- father doesn't travel, Amelie is hesitant to enter love. Your reaction is very insightful and entertaining!
Check out " Intouchables ", " Bernie ", " Au revoir là haut "
You do have a big French audience -- you've got me !!!
Its her air hostess friend who sends the gnome pictures
You said it Neil CHARMING is right, beautifully stylish movie .
Hey, I am french. I have seen Amelie once. But not my thing. I prefer "Un long dimanche de fiançailles", same director, same actress and Gaspard Ulliel (RIP).
I love this film and have enjoyed your enjoyment of it. I'll need to find my dvd and watch it again.
Your analysis was spot on, except I don't understand how you missed who was taking the gnome around the world. It was subtly given away when Amelie was going around ringing doorbells in search for the toy box guy's ID. I think it was third doorbell women.
I really enjoyed watching you enjoy yourself. May I recommend another French favourite of mine.. Taxi. Directed by Luc Besson. I think you'd also enjoy that
Beautiful, human reaction. 👍
This movie is such a sweetie!
NEIL Talks, you need to see other films of the director Jean-Pierre Jeunet: the post-apocalyptic black comedy "Delicatessen" (1991), the sciene fantasy film "The City of Lost Children" ( _La Cité Les Enfants Perdus_ ) (1995), the romantic WWI drama "A Very Long Engagement" ( _Un long Dimanche de fiancailles_ ) (2004).
Great pick for a happy Valentine's day. If you enjoyed this one, from the same director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (and co-directed by Marc Caro) you should try Delicatessen (1991) and La Cité des Enfants Perdus (City of the Lost Children,1995). You'll have a blast ! I also highly recommend Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles (A Long Engagement Sunday, 2004, also starring Audrey Tautou and JP Jeunet as Director). JP Jeunet also directed Alien 4 but I don't personnally like it.
Funfact, Mathieu Kassovitz who plays Nino, makes a short appearance in The Fifth Element when he tries to rob Bruce Willis. He also directed Babylon A.D. (with Vin Diesel) and Gothika (with Halle Berry). Audrey Tautou who plays Amélie is mostly known in the USA for her role in Da Vinci Code (not that good of a movie though entertaining).
So I enjoyed Tampopo made in 1984. A comedy with heart, it is a live action reflection on the culture surrounding food in Japan. It features seperate vignettes, threaded together by the adventures of a trucker and a ramen stall owner. He acts as a mentor and fairy godfather to the stall owner as she desperately tries to reinvent her failing business, starting, of course, with the perfect chicken stock.
I love that movie!
Just discovered your reaction of this film today. It's one of my all-time faves. I very much enjoyed your discussion at the end of your vid after you had watched it. It was quite interesting and in-depth. Based on what you said there, I would strongly recommend you watch the TV series Firefly followed by the associated movie Serenity. I think you would enjoy the non-traditional aspects of the storylines and dialog. If you HAVE already seen them, I certainly understand why you wouldn't do a reaction to them. Please keep up the good work.
3:45 All men? What about Joe Wilkinson?
Harsh to hear "oh what a French sentiment" when you read the bad translation "Failure is Humman destiny"
To be more accurate he says in the film (When the writer was talking about failure ) "Human destiny accomplish things after failing.." 😊
Damn it! Every time it gets to the guy finding his box, my eyes are a watery mess for the rest of the reaction.
great reaction man!! Saludos from spain
Great reaction! Thanks!
Great video 👍.
Hopefully there are other cinemas than Hollywood ! Enjoy european, asiatic, and south american films, they're really more creative.
(Sorry for my "frenchglish" 😁🇨🇵)
One of my favorite movies of all time. If u like this, please consider Addicted to love. Also a great rom com. Cheers.
I like your reactions to this movie, and to " Parasite" movie.
You have a heart and soul. And great mind. I mean brain.
I pardon my english, i'm from Paris, Texas. Keep up good work, dear man.
How did you do it to show clips from the movie ? Because when I try, there is a protection that prevents the image to be recorded. I really do need to get that widescreen open matte version back !
C'est de la poésie a l'état pur ...un diamant brut.
Hello from Brittany .Happy to see you like french movies.I m waiting like many persons for other reacts about JP Jeunet films.Take a look about Luc Besson movies too (specially Leon the professional ,The big blue ,etc...) .Just for fun don t past away from francis veber ones (Le diner de cons ,not the ugly u-s version the dinner ) .etc etc... still for fun I hope you will discover fabulous french actors Jacques Villeret (Les enfants du Marais for exple ) and Pierre Richard .Finally an epic italian film with a lot of trophee :" Life is beautiful ,la vita e bella ' ,a masterpiece ...Have a nice day .
I would have love to share all the happy and sad moments of my life that Amelie illustrated by the number of times I've watched but I can't, I don't have the words and who cares, we're all unique. I love the way you watched it, you let its language penetrate you. I know you can't watch every movies peoples are telling you to watch and that you have to earn some money to live with your Parreon,I respect that a lot. But if you want to experienxe another Jeunet's movie, just for yoyrself, you shall have a try with "A very long engagement" with Audery Tautou again. It's darker, it takes place during WW1 and some yeaes before and after. It's a masterpiece. And thank you for your instinctive understanding of how we feel in France. Failure is a lover of ours, we know it deeply, we learned to cherrish it in a kind of way due to our History. Take care
one of the most beautiful love films. great reaction!
if you are looking for realistic european cinema: das boot by wolfgang petersen. one of the most intense war movies. world war 2 from the perspective of a german submarine crew. was nominated for six academy awards.
Great reaction, champ!
I know you're Canadian but seeing as you are not a French-speaker, I'm going to assume you don't know the following French-Canadian movies that I highly recommend:
- "Le Déclin du Monde Américain" and "Les Invasions Barbares" by Denys Arcand,
- "Incendies" by Denis Villeneuve (more known for Arrival and Dune)
- C.R.A.Z.Y.,
- Movies by Xavier Dolan ("Mommy", "Laurence Anyways" "Juste la Fin du Monde"...)
The gnome scene was copied by a travel agency for their ads.
You may watch some Czech movies, like Pelíšky, Jízda or Samotáři... they have not the same, but similarly "unreal-real" vibe :)
I haven't seen any of those (will have to check them out), but I'm a big fan of 'Sedmikrasky', 'Valerie a Tyden Divu' and 'Hori, ma panenko'. Also 'Nuda v Brne', although I've only seen that once so far.
@@letsrock1729 were you able to find them somewhere with subtitles? I recently talked with one of my friends from USA about Rok ďábla and we were unable to find any reliable source of Czech movies with English subtitles.
@@carnifaxx I've got them all on DVD with subtitles, but I've had them for so long now (10+ years) and they were all gifts...so I have no idea where they were originally bought. Amazon UK appears to have 3 of them (with subtitles) at the moment (not 'Nuda v Brne', but the others)..but the DVD regions might not be right for you. Could be worth a look, though.
@@letsrock1729 thank you very much :)
@@carnifaxx You're welcome!
As a fellow Canadian, I find films from Quebec very different from any Canadian or American films, you should look at JESUS OF MONTREAL, THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRER or LEOLO among others we do live in the same country yet we live in two parallel universes it seems!