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Audrey Tautou,
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Laurent Firode,
Laurent Firode
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: New Yorker Video
: Foreign, France
: 97 min.
: French
: English
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After a series of short films, writer/director Laurent Firode made his feature-length debut with this tale of coincidence, chance, and fate inspired by a variation of the chaos theory, which supposes that if a butterfly beats its wings in one part of the world, it could theoretically cause a full-fledged storm thousands of miles away. Firode applies this theory to a disparate group of Parisians, opening with a young retail worker, Irene (Audrey Tautou), reading her horoscope on the train to work one morning. At the store, Irene has to deal with an elderly woman (Francoise Bertin) who wants to return a broken coffeemaker; as if that weren't enough, the dissatisfied octogenarian consumer has to put up with her impudent grandson, Luc (Eric Feldman). Amidst all the seemingly unrelated human activities in the film, cockroaches, bird droppings, and changes in the weather all conspire to bring the characters together -- or drive them apart, as the case may be. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
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| File alongside "Ozzie Canseco" and "Michael McCartney"
by kamapuaa
November 26, 2004 - 8:20 PM PST
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5 out of 8 members found this review helpful
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Audrey Tautou co-stars as a shy young woman looking for love in an unrecognizably charming residential Paris. Coincidince and unseen connections are shown to dominate her life.
While the focus is distributed amongst a large cast of characters, and the comparison is less than complete, anybody who's seen Amelie will view this movie as its less-accomplished twin.
Less accomplished in the sense that Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Goldberg-esque style more smoothly captured the interworkings of a complex system, and did so with a great deal less pretention and self-consciousness. Not to mention, Amelie looked a lot better, and Audrey Tautou is enough of an attraction in herself, that she demands more screen time than this movie gave her. |
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