<BR>you may rent it at Facets. There is an 800 number. I buy most of the films I own there when the price is reduced. They have an incredible inventory.

Mimi: Thanks -- I'm glad to know about this service.

Charlie Girl, you might also want to try a video rental place that carries a greater variety of little-known films than a Blockbuster outlet would. Venus Beauty Insitute was a charming film, but it was more of a chipbuster than a blockbuster. :~)

Topping for anon, etc.

amelie

For another film starring Audrey Tautou that is a little darker and more comedy/drama look for Happenstance. It was recently showing in So. Cal. so it may still be circulating. It was released in 2001, and is basically a little darker take on the same theme as Amelie. Both were enjoyable to me.

Tried to voice my opinion but this thread wouldn't pick up my message.<BR><BR>Anyway, my overall impression of "Amelie": was never THAT bored watching a French movie! Can't understand what others salivate about except a few Paris views.

I believe you have to look at it like a character study movie. Not much action, but a fine story.

I love France, but this film is not woth the attention. There are better flower/produce/ stands in Boston and there are much more charming restaurants in Paris than that one. Also what adoreable girl falls for a guy who rents porn movies and collects pictures from under the dirty 4 for a dollar picture booth at the subway stops. I did not think this movie made Paris look as fabulous as it really is.

There was an article in the LA Times on Tuesday about Amelie and how it has spurred an invasion of fans of the movie in Montmarte. Alot of the movie was set in the real restaurant Cafe des Deux Moulins on Lepic and Cauchois Streets, a block from Moulin Rouge. The grocery store is Chez Ali near Place Pigalle.

I thought Amelie to be a cute little amusing movie. Not sure why there's been such a hullabaloo over it. It was okay, not a great pic nor majorly memorable.

And that, in a nutshell, is what make the world go around. Some do some don't, some like and some dislike, etc.

Nancy~<BR><BR>You are correct, the cafe where she works (deux moulins) is on the rue Lepic, which just happens to be the street I live on Paris. <BR><BR>BTilke, I'm sorry that you feel the movie 'masked' the real Montmartre...I found the 'movie' itself ok-ayyyyyyy, but it was SO Montmartre, all I had to do was close my eyes, and I could hear the familiar sound of cars driving over the cobble stones (rrrrrrrrrr) and the bells of Sacre-Coeur ringing and in 2 seconds I was 'home'...the fruit stand is there, the 'actors' were mostly locals whom you see everyday on montmartre... but all films have to have some fantasy and clean up, n'est-ce pas?<BR><BR>The montmartois wonder what all the hub-bub is about the movie, but find the interest in other parts of Montmartre (than the Place de Tertre)charming and refreshing!<BR><BR>My friends who own the Gallerie Roussard on the Rue Mont Cenis, and I, took ten years to research a book we titled 'le dictionnaire' of Montmartre, where we identified and catalogued every fountain, church, building, vineyard, and major personality who lived there...with black and white photographs to boot. If you are interested in the 'real' history of Montmartre and read French well, and would like to see the way it 'was'...stop by the gallery and take a look! FYI: the gallery was the last place Edith Piaf ever sang, and it was the REAL 'Patachou'!!!!! (not the restaurant)<BR><BR>~Wendy~

I found it to be a fun, quirky movie and have recommended it to many friends who also loved it.<BR><BR>Nancy: Where did you find Happenstance playing in So Cal?

I think I saw it in Pasadena or Encino at one of the Laemmle Theatres. I dont think it is around any more. I have no idea where to rent recent foreign movies in the LA area, but it should be out pretty soon.