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title: "Amelie [DVD] [2001]"
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# Amelie [DVD] [2001]

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## Description

Product Description               Amelie Poulain has led a sheltered life - educated at home by over-protective parents, she retreats into a fantasy world of her own. When she finally leaves home and finds work as a waitress in a Parisian café, life is pretty uneventful until a chain of extraordinary events leads her to the discovery of a tin box containing a schoolboys long forgotten mementos. It is then that Amelie discovers her true vocation in life helping others find love and happiness which she sets about in her own unique and magical way. When Amelie falls in love herself, she realizes that making neat solutions in not as easy as it seems... DVD Special Features English subtitles Commentary by director Jean Pierre Jeunet Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 6.1 Anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen 16:9                  .co.uk Review               Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie could have been marketed as a simple love story, but this would be missing a huge part of its appeal. It is in fact only the second half of the movie where romance begins to blossom, and even then it is in an unconventional way. With its use of special effects to express the main character's internal emotions, this could also have been mistaken for a French version of Ally McBeal; however, unlike Ally "woe is me for I cannot find a man" McBeal, Amelie is not distressed by the lack of men in her life, in fact the whole idea of sex seems to amuse her no end. Basic pleasures such as cracking the top of a Crème Brule offer her all the sensual satisfaction she needs and her existence in the "Paris of Dreams" is the stuff of fairy-tales. Indeed, this cinematic treat must have worked wonders for the Paris tourist board; Jeunet's beautiful interpretation of Parisian life includes all the vibrant colours you would expect from the director of Delicatessen. But Amelie is much more than a simple "feelgood" movie. The pixie woman herself is a shining symbol for our times. Set at the time of Princess Diana's death, Amelie is struck with a plan to offer goodness back to the world--to become the Mother Teresa of France. The film never offers a motive for this do-gooding--like all great martyrs Amelie simply is and does as she pleases to please others. She demands no thanks for her offering of love, simply hiding in the shadows and gaining the warm glow of satisfaction from the knowledge that she has managed to change someone's life. Her selflessness is a breath of fresh air in a dog-eat-dog world where we ignore our neighbour's troubles, and each other's loneliness. Featuring a strong supporting cast who play fully rounded characters, as well as the beautiful imagery and typical French humour which borders on the black, Amelie will leave the viewer feeling like the happiest person alive. On the DVD: Disappointingly low on features for such a well-loved release, this disc has one treasurable special feature: a commentary (in English) by the enigmatic Jean-Pierre Jeunet which is pure joy (it's also refreshing to hear an accent other than American--a rarity for the DVD format). The disc comes with a choice of Dolby Digital or DTS sound adding to the enchantment of the piece; the anamorphic widescreen print enhances the rich colours so loved by Jeunet.--Nikki Disney

## Product Details

- **Genre:** World Cinema
- **Format:** PAL
- **Contributor:** Audrey Tautou, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- **Language:** French
- **Runtime:** 1 hour and 56 minutes

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Film
*by R***R on 8 June 2025*

Everyone should see this film

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Item
*by R***M on 9 March 2025*

Great item well packaged fast delivery 5***** seller 👍

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This BD is a transfer from a good quality original source and has responded well to the upgrade and is well worth considering
*by I***S on 26 August 2016*

This entertaining and strikingly original film has been a considerable box office success and has been a popular purchase on DVD. There is little need for this review to provide detail of content except to provide a short resume of the essential plot.Amelie is a young girl in search of love - not for herself but for others that she meets during her life as a waitress in a small cafe. She herself has been starved of such affection as she has grown up and is motivated to rectify such gaps in the lives of others. This continues to satisfactory conclusions but, unexpectedly for Amelie, it also develops into a satisfactory conclusion for herself.The film was made in 2001 and the source material is of high quality visually, and less importantly perhaps, in terms of audio. There is a considerable amount of voice-over dialogue in the form of Amelie's thoughts otherwise there are no special audio effects. If all of this seems potentially a trifle dull it is the achievement of the film that it proves to be charmingly engrossing instead.Otherwise ......For all of those who are keen supporters of this film and who have bought the previous DVD version of this disc, the only issue of vital importance will be whether the Blu-ray offers an improvement technically sufficient to justify the additional expense.For this reviewer the answer is a clear affirmative. The upgrade offers a clear advance on both image and audio quality with the imaging being a marked improvement. The colours are firmer and there is an increase to the perceived depth of the imaging. The whole film simply becomes more 'real.'The degree of improvement will also inevitably depend on the replay equipment used. The screen, an important factor in visual products, is of moderate dimensions being a 40 inch television screen. However, the television is a high performing 4K unit which delivers a compensating positive effect. The moderate screen size lacks the impact of larger screens but is less critical of film faults.The contributing player is usefully able to separate the audio and visual signals before they leave to the television and pre-amp. That feature enhances both the visual and audio elements of the output. The audio, not so critical in the case, delivers an unusually wide-ranging and revealing performance as one would expect from a musician. Its precision is equally revealing of film tracks.Readers with alternative equipment will have to interpret this review bearing in mind their own equipment and its comparative advantages and disadvantages.The disc offers purchasers with suitable replay equipment a substantial improvement over the previous DVDThis BD is a transfer from a good quality original source and has responded well to the upgrade and is well worth considering

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