Not that I
disliked the movie -- I mostly enjoyed it -- but parts of
it grated on me after a while. It was too self-conscious
[particularly
Amélie's (Audrey Tautou) cloak-and-dagger courtship of shy Nino
(Mathieu Kassovitz)], and plus there was the whole thing about her
enjoying
her job and her romantic life working out (despite her best attempts to
scuttle it), which I so cannot relate to. I wish I had
been
in a better mood; I think I might have enjoyed the movie a lot
more.
Maybe I'll watch it again someday when I'm happier... or drunk, which
is
likely to happen sooner.
For some reason -- and this is totally just me being touchy -- it
really
offends me that director Jean-Pierre Jeunet digitally erased graffiti,
trash, and parked cars from his Parisian streets. I understand that he
wanted a fairy-tale atmosphere -- but in that case, go out and clean
the
damn streets! It just seems wrong to alter the city
artificially.
However, the traveling gnome made up for this offense. I don't
know
why I find garden gnomes so funny... I just do. (I wouldn't have
thought they'd have them in France, though -- les horreurs de globalization!)
Why do I have the horrible feeling that this movie is going to be
remade
in English by Miramax, with Meg Ryan as a perky pixie named Emily
working
at a coffeehouse in Seattle?
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