![]() AFP PHOTO / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULATįrench actress Audrey Tautou, best known for the 2001 film "Amelie", will host the opening and closing ceremonies of the Cannes Film Festival next month, one of the organisers said on Tuesday. Long after the CG thrills of hyped fantasy movies and big budget Hollywood productions have faded and been forgotten, Amelie will still be jumping around in my heart, doing all those silly and charming little things I wish I dared to do too.'Amelie' actress Audrey Tautou to host Cannes opening ceremony PARIS - Agence France-PresseĪ file picture taken on in Cannes, southern France, shows French actress Audrey Tautou posing upon her arrival for the screening of the film "Therese Desqueyroux" presented out of competition at the 65th Cannes film festival. I very rarely give movies a 10, and I was indeed considering a 9 for a while, but for me this is one of those movies I will come back to time after time. Damn it, "Amelie" made me happy, laughing out loud at times, and very few movies affects me like that. It contains so many details and switches in tempo and camerawork it has to be seen more than once to take in and understand everything. Everyone manages to make the most out of their role and even though we only get to know some of them briefly they come alive just as much as Amelie herself does. The cast makes an excellent whole and it is hard imagining switching anyone without affecting the whole outcome. However she does not carry "Amelie" solely by herself. I am a bit embarrassed admitting it but I was almost falling in love with Amelie myself, forgetting she was only fiction on the screen. Audrey Tautou could not be overemphasized for her importance in portraying Amelie. For you who think you never heard of him before he is actually the same man who brought us "Alien 4" back in 1997, (I still refuse to believe he was involved in that horrible film.), and the wonderful "Delicatessen" in 1991. It is exactly this kind of movie that could easily be overdone and lose all of its magic in the hands of the wrong person, but Jean-Pierre Jeunet never slips a single time. Jean-Pierre Jeunet manages to bring us along without losing control of the set or the plot. She just happens to fall in love one day when she decides to embark on a quest. ![]() Some people I spoke to before seeing "Amelie" criticized it for being too childish and unrealistic, but I believe it is an essential part of the movie since Amelie herself is a very childish and imaginative young girl. Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet brings to life the world of Amelie with colors, masterful camerawork and a few special effects (Well, I have certainly felt like melting a couple of times too in my life!). We get to see and experience the world and especially Paris through the filtering eyes and fantasy of Amelie, A Paris that might feel small and limited on the screen but in fact is just as big as it is in the eyes of Amelie. I do not know any French at all, but I sure wish I was fluent watching this movie! Compared to most other films "Amelie" (and I will stick to "Amelie" since "Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" is a bit long to write) is based on a rather ordinary and plain story everyone can relate to, but it is given to us in a very special kind of way, mixed with wonderful little subplots and an almost chaotic amount of details. Sad to say so, but I believe it is the truth. Subtitles just does not bring full justice to a movie like this, and it is bound to scare off most of the audience not used to subtitled movies. This movies biggest crime, and yet its biggest asset, is that it is in French. Eventually I did get around to see it, though a small TV never does a film the same justice a theater does, and being a bit sceptic about the small hype this movie caused made me prejudice about it, but I must say I have never been so wrong before. Sitting here, long after in the aftermath, I might never forgive myself for missing that opportunity. To start off with, I heard a lot of good things about this movie when it was on the big screens but never got around to see it before it disappeared.
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