Amélie

Amélie is a French romantic comedy film published in 2001 directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. It tells the story of a young girl who craves her fathers attention, but he only touches her when giving her monthly checkups. This makes her heart beat faster, and her father assumes she's sick. She was home schooled by her mother, and her only friend was her fish Blubber. When her mother puts Blubber in the sea she gives Amélie a camera as a replacement. Her mother then dies and she us brought up by her father a lonely child. Played by Audrey Tautou Amélie becomes a shy waitress in Café des 2 Moulins in Montmartre. On 31st August 1997 Amélie is shocked by the new of the death of the Princess of wales, Dianna. Causing her to drop a glass perfume stopper, rolling across her bathroom floor and dislodges a loose tile. Behind the tile she finds a small metal box of someone's child memorabilia. On this finding, Amélie set about finding who the box belonged to, and returning it too them. Eventually she finds the owner of the box, someone who lived in her flat in the 50's as a boy and returns it to him, keeping her identity unknown. Witnessing the reaction of the now elderly man, Amélie decided to make it her life's work to make others happy. But in slightly odd ways, amusing herself and viewers. Amélie come across a  man named Nino Quincampoix, whose photo album she gets hold of when he drops it in the street. Inside Nino has reassembles peoples ripped up photo booth images, and Amélie plays a cat and mouse game with him around Paris before returning it to him. Again keeping her identity hidden. When planning to meet Nino in the café she works in she becomes too shy to reveal herself and denies her identity. Amélie spends her days making others happy,  but she isn't pursuing her own happiness, and it takes her neighbour Dufayel's insight to give her the courage to do so.
At first I was unsure on whether I was going to enjoy this film, with it all being in French, and having to read the subtitles. It started off quite strange but I did enjoy it, as odd as it was. Seeing the different things Amélie got up to was interesting to watch and sometimes quite funny. Its a film you'll only watch once.
The scene of Amélie's bedroom reminds me of William Eggleston's photograph of the red ceiling, and the look of how the film was shot reminds me of the photographers Philip-Lorca Dicorcia and Gregory  Crewdson.