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April 25, 2001
Amélie
(out of four)
As the kinetically lovable Amélie Poulain, Audrey Tautou flits about like Juliette Binoche on Ecstasy. Filled with the kind of emotional intensity that seems to fuel Celine Dion songs, her heart is perpetually on the verge of bursting. Amélie is an anomaly, the lone Parisian who thinks of others before herself. She devotes her days to fulfilling the unspoken dreams of the friends and strangers around her. To inspire her lonely father to travel the world, for instance, she liberates his plaster garden gnome and sends snapshots of its merry travels back home.
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