Directors Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuan and Maïlys Vallade, who worked on films such as LITTLEPRINCE, LONG WAY NORTH, CALAMITY, ZARAPHRA, THE ILLUSIONIST, come together to tell the story of a little Belgian girl born in Japan who thinks she is a god.
Containing some truly wondrous sequences, LITTLE AMELIE, is a beautiful film. At times it has a sense of wonder that it truly magical and will make you feel good. There are some moments in the film which are so wondrous that you will get misty from the sheer beauty of them.
While told from the perspective of a three year old, the film never fully connected to me. The problem is that the film wants to view the world from the three year old's sense of wonder, it is not a real three year old's sense but that of an adult. It's not fatal, but it takes the edge off the film, making it a film I like instead of love. To be fair I think the problem is that this comes from a novel and very often the conceits that work on the page does not work on the big screen.
My quibbles aside, this is a truly beautiful film and worth seeing on any screen you can.
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