Jean-Pierre Jeunet directs Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz and Lorella Cravotta in this French classic about a lonely waitress who decides to perform secret acts of vigilante kindness in a whimsical depiction of Montmartre, Paris.

I know Amélie has its detractors who find it twee, reactionary and laboured. I find it comforting. Technically adventurous with a seductively sweet clowning performance by Tautou and one the most lush ‘borrowed’ score by composer Yann Tiersen. If you don’t have any love in your heart for Amélie, then maybe cinema just isn’t for you. The movie equivalent of Eleanor Rigby.

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Perfect Double Bill: A Very Long Engagement (2004)

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