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12 October 2011 6:00 AM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »

★★★☆☆ This week sees the cinematic re-release (ahead of its Blu-ray release on 17 Oct) of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's modern day fairytale Amélie (2001), the film that launched the career of Audrey Tautou in the role of the eponymous Parisian waitress, Amélie Poulain, a Nutella-eyed innocent with puckish charm who was soon gracing the wall of many a student bedsit.

It was also the breakout film for Jeunet who, after a promising start with Delicatessen (1991) and The City of Lost Children (1995) had himself lost his way with the weakest entry in the already faltering Alien franchise, Alien: Resurrection (1997). The strong visual style and surrealist wit which had first made his name were back in abundance, with metamorphosing clouds and errant garden gnomes.

Amélie's opening hour is a wonderful compilation of crackpot stories that Jeunet had been collecting for much of his career for the purpose of the film. There is a sense of wild invention told with panache, »

- Daniel Green

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