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But when she discovers a strange photo album belonging to Nino Mathieu Kassovitz , she soon realises that she is in love and has problems of her own.

Amusing herself and us , she devises the most brilliant ways for bringing about their happiness. She plays matchmaker with the lonely tobacconist Georgette Isabelle Nanty at the local Parisian cafe, and Joseph Dominique Pinon , a customer who has been jilted. It is a place of violently contrasting colours, of eccentric characters, where the only music is that of a quaint, nostalgic accordion.

Peter Bradshaw thinks it's a little wearing - 'all the sucrose reaches saturation point,' but in France, audiences can't get enough of this tale of lavish comic whimsy. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Writer: Guillaume Laurant. How many people are watching movies right now? We'd guess about 1. How many people are on their cell phones right now?

Probably about 3 billion. How many people are on Shmoop right now? Probably the same number, give or take a few hundred. And how many people are falling in love right now? A pretty big title for a movie about one small French girl. Then she must overcome her own shyness and her own reluctance to achieve happiness of her own. Jeunet had actually done an English-language film previously, the critically panned Alien: Resurrection Jeunet's early work is actually pretty dark; we're talking about Delicatessen , a movie about a cannibalistic butcher, and City of Lost Children , a movie about a mad scientist stealing dreams.

They were no longer dependent on the once-a-decade hit the last French-language hit on a similar scale had been La Cage aux Folles in in the US market, or the best foreign film Oscar connection, to make a name.

It was out of the arthouse, and into the multiplex. But, in , it lingered on a kind of threshold. It relied on the tried-and-tested pull of beautifully photographed exotica that made The Last Emperor and Cinema Paradiso crossover darlings in the 80s. City of God began with the chicken's-eye view of the favelas, and didn't get much more elevated than that.