Amelie uses a unique style of filming which follows its principal character, Amelie Poulain, around Paris as she sets out to make the world a better place.
The movie opens with Amelie’s birth and childhood. Amelie’s childhood is primarily focused on the relationship she has with her parents although a few other mishaps and exploits are thrown in as well. This includes a scene in which she exercises the precursor to her strong sense of justice we see later on in the film.
The first half of the movie focuses on Amelie’s determination to make the world a better place by serving the principal people she interacts with. She brings back childhood memories for a stranger, describes the world to a blind man, re-inspires a close friend, matchmakes one of her coworkers and customers, uses a garden gnome to convince her father to travel, and even serves vigilante justice to a cruel vegetable shopowner, Somewhere along the way, the audience slowly realizes along with Amelie that she is not completely content simply serving others. She has a desire for a relationship herself. The second half of the movie primarily focuses on Amelie’s desire to connect with a young man, Nino, who is unfortunately unaware of her existence. Amelie sets out to help Nino in his mission to discover the identity of a mysterious man in photographs however, along the way, she realizes she wants to be with Nino as well. She interacts with him incognito so that she will not give away her identity.
The characters are described primarily by what they like to do and what they don’t like. Although at first appearance this is very random, it actually serves to create a very complete picture of each character. The characters are rich with detail and motives.
Amelie makes use of various cinematographic effects to convey its story. The most noticeable effect is a filter that changes the color of the lighting in various settings but use of various angles and zoom are also very prominent. Framing is also used as well to depict perspectives of characters. Heavy use of mise en scene is present as well.
I truly enjoyed this movie because of the manner in which the cinematographic effects and editing came together to reveal each character's perspectives and thoughts. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a movie to inspire their lives.
written by Blair Kim
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I agree that this film presents an enjoyable journey for the audience, with its cinematography and optimistic and pleasant tale. It is because of these aspects that this more genre-oriented production is more appealing to the wider international community. It is more globalized in nature when compared to other French films that place an emphasis on realism, and, therefore, on subjects that would be more interesting to specifically French audiences.
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