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...AMELIE FROM MONTMARTRE A shy girl with a runaway imagination (Audrey Tautou) forces magic on all those in her Paris neighborhood. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's scurrying narrative and cinematic gamesmanship (a style that could be called faux Truffaut) may at times weary viewers used to Hollywood's burlier, spell-it-all-out mode. But give me, any day, a film that offers a groaning banquet table of invention and enchantment--and a showcase for world-class beguiler Tautou...
...from Montmartre A shy girl with a runaway imagination (Audrey Tautou) forces magic on all those in her Paris neighborhood. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's scurrying narrative and cinematic gamesmanship (a style that could be called faux Truffaut) may at times weary viewers used to Hollywood's burlier, spell-it-all-out mode. But give me, any day, a film that offers a groaning banquet table of invention and enchantment - and a showcase for world-class beguiler Tautou...
...geometric poem of spatial awareness, the juxtaposition of animate and inanimate. As mother and son sit down for dinner, half of their fish tank fills the bottom right of the screen, and a ghostly white fish swims in and out of the frame. As Hsaio-kang watches Truffaut, the TV set is, again, placed at bottom right. Chen and Cecilia Yip's heads line up diagonally on a pillow before they kiss. Even the chairs in Paris' Luxembourg Gardens have armrests that rise at 45 degrees from the slumping seats. Throughout, Tsai makes the eye follow as if looking...
...case. She concludes that a large white fish in their aquarium is his reincarnation. Hsiao-kang retreats into fantasies about his fleeting meeting with Shiang-chyi and, hoping somehow to connect with her, sets all his watches to Paris time. He also starts drinking red wine and watching FranCois Truffaut films. Meanwhile, Shiang-chyi, hanging out in Paris, has a tantalizing lesbian encounter with Hong Kong actress Cecilia...
French film director François Truffaut once said that English filmmaking was a contradiction in terms. The Brits have been saying the same thing about French pop music for decades. For the discerning Anglo-Saxon music lover, the country that gave the world Jean-Michel Jarre's po-faced pomposity and the embarrassing histrionics of paunchy, ageing rocker Johnny Hallyday had an awful lot to answer...