AMELIE

Friday, August 13th
and Saturday, August 14th at 10:00 p.m.
Admission: $6.00 general; $5.00 Loft members

LATE NIGHT CULT CLASSIC PRESENTED BY BOOKMANS
http://www.bookmans.com
THE GREATEST CULT MOVIES OF ALL-TIME ARE BACK ON THE BIG SCREEN IN 35 MM!

"There's real magic in this movie -- and enough energy to power a whole city on a dark and gloomy night." - Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

"One person can change your life forever."

Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's magical French comedy is perhaps one of the most charming movies of all time.
Amélie (played by the impish Audrey Tautou, in a role that forever made her an arthouse pin-up girl) is a painfully shy waitress working at a tiny Paris cafe. One day she makes the grand decision to help other lonely people fix their lives, dedicating herself to inspiring others to find true happiness ... in the most delightfully unexpected ways. Her widowed father yearns to travel but won't, so to inspire the old man she sends his garden gnome on a tour of the world; with whispered gossip, she brings together two cranky regulars at her café; she reverses the doorknobs and reprograms the speed dial of a grocer who's mean to his assistant. Gradually she realizes her own life needs fixing, and a chance meeting leads to her most elaborate stratagem of all.
A beguiling mixture of cartoonish comedy, visual panache and whimsical romanticism, Jeneut's follow-up to his classic films Delicatessen and City of Lost Children is sheer movie bliss.