Amelie Poulain is a simple and quirky girl with simple and quirky surroundings.
She loses her mother at a small age due to a freak accident. After that her life goes on slowly, she longs for friends and believes that every action must have an equal and opposite reaction. She grows up to work in a cafe called ’’The Two Windmills’’ where her colleagues and regulars are just as strange, if not more, as her.
Her life is changed the day princess Diana dies when she finds an small, old box, hidden by a small boy containing toys etc. She decides to deliver the box to the person and see his reaction. If, he was happy she would become a regular do-gooder, if not, too bad.
As it turns out he is happy and this changes her whole perspective of life. She decides she shall help all that need help.
The plot continues, and without revealing too much, I would say, she meets a guy, they fall in love, and finally they get together.
The movie is filled with many flashbacks in different shades of colour. The humour varies from black humour to poor jokes to simply stunning narration and back.
The narration is amazing to say the least, every part of it. You will fall in love with the characters, and their insane ways. Though the movie is french, the english subtitles are very well given and more than make up for it.
Things to look out for are the ways she helps people, and the bouts of funny self-loathing that the lead pair put themselves through.
This is strictly contemporary film making, and not commercial. Of course, you don’t have to take my word you could consider the fact that it got nominated for best foreign film at the oscars.