Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s wildly surreal and whimsical “Amelie” is the ultimate foreign film for people who, for whatever reason, just can’t muster the effort to read subtitles.
You know the type. They refused to see “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and “Run Lola Run” because they didn’t want to pay $6.50 to read. Luckily for them, you could remove the subtitles from “Amelie” and hardly affect the viewer’s experience.
That’s because Jeunet, known for his haunting, stylish visuals and eccentric characters in “Delicatessen” and “The City of Lost Children,” has created a movie that communicates in a universal language. From the crack of a spoon on the sugary top of a cr
