_Amelie_

[semperfiona]

Odd movie. A lot of voiceover narration, little dialogue. I think it might qualify as a picaresque, and there are few enough of those these days. It was almost, but not quite, surreal. Very pretty.
Amelie herself is amazingly flaky, descending on people's lives like fairy dust--she even looks like a pixie, if pixies had gorgeous breasts. She can't do anything straightforward but thinks up bizarre strategems to accomplish her goals. For a while I was wanting to slap her for being coy to the point of cowardice.