Amélie is 25

 

I saw Amélie in the autumn of 2001 at the Showrooms in Sheffield. I still remember the afternoon , as after the film had aired I had to turn to a stranger to comment just how good it was. 

I have visited the film many times since but never on the big screen, so today a friend and I drove to Chester to see it at the Storyhouse 

It was a delight as it has always been, a magical tale of a quirky lonely waitress and her quest to do good in a whimsically unreal Montmartre where strange characters abound and where the colours of the bars and shops and streets burst out of the screen like magic. 

It made Audrey Tautou a star and is, I am sure one of the most loved of all French movies