Cheap Cds - Amelie [Original Score]

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Summary: the best soundtrack..ever!
Comment: the cd is absolutely superb, very upbeat and listening to it makes me feel in a good mood. the film
was wonderful, the soundtrack fantastic. my favourite track is the first one-also the beginning of
the film-'j'y suis jamais alle'. listening to this soundtrack you feel as though you are in paris
sampling all the delights and what it has to offer. this music is typically french and a great
change if you do not normlaly listen to this type of music. you will fall in love with it without a
doubt!

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Summary: Just....perfect
Comment: It took me a while to get around to watch the film, so long in fact, that I was already familiar
with the soundtrack (much of which appears on his other albums), having fallen in love with Yann
Tiersen's work a couple of months before. As a result, I had a much greater awareness of the
soundtrack and the effect that it had.
Very Gallic in its sound, it uses what could be
considered 'traditional' French-sounding instruments, such as the accordion and the harpsichord,
along with a plethora of others (the banjo, bass guitar, vibraphone, and of course, the piano), and
a couple of unusual ones too. The concept of using the tapping of a typewriter to keep the beat
('Pas Si Simple') and ending a song with the gentle clicking wind of a bicycle wheel ('La Dispute')
may seem very odd ones, but are strangely effective, and along with the rest of this
beautifully-crafted soundtrack, are highly evocative of the world that the film entices the audience
into.
Two of the tracks were not written by Yann Tiersen ('Guilty' and 'Si Tu N'Etais Pas La'),
but with their dreamy-sounding vocals, these 1930s-esque tracks not only fit in very well with the
tone of the album, they make you want to get up and dance with someone.
Standout tracks for me on
this CD are the bouncy 'J'y Suis Jamais Alle' and 'Le Valse Des Monstres', the melancholy 'Le
Moulin' and 'Comptine D'Un Autre Ete' and the simply perfect 'La Valse d'Amelie'.
Listen to this
album a few times and it will get under your skin. This is one of my favourite soundtracks of all
time, both as accompaniment to a brilliant film and as an original, captivating piece of its music
in its own right. It doesn't matter whether you see the film before listening to the soundtrack, or
vice versa, as long as you do both.

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Summary: Absolute perfection
Comment: The film is amazing... the soundtrack is a key part of any film and this is no
exception.

Beautiful and dreamy... perfect.

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Summary: Buy the film, not the soundtrack
Comment: The question when buying a soundtrack for a movie you like is always: is it worth it? Does the music
work on its own? Amelie is one of my favourite films of the last few years and I thought the music
played a big role in that. However, having bought the soundtrack and the DVD, I'd advise you to
stick to the movie itself. You'll most probably find, like I did, that it doesn't make great
listening on its own. There are some highlights which make it beautiful, notably Comptine D'un Autre
Ete and La Valse D'Amelie, but on the whole, it was fairly uninspiring and just made me want to
watch the movie again.
So my advice is to buy the video and enjoy a great piece of cinema, and
forget the soundtrack.

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Summary: Fits the film perfectly!
Comment: Composed by Yann Tiersen, the music fits the style of the film perfectly. It's a very
french-sounding (naturally!) album, and is almost entirely instrumental. The CD varies in style and
pace from slower melancholy tracks, to more uptempo ones. On your first few listens a lot of the
songs will probably sound very similar to each other, but after repeated plays each track's
individuality starts to shine through. I particularly liked the tracks with just a piano.

If you
loved the film (which most people seem to) then I'd definitely recommend picking up this soundtrack.
It has a quite unique sound & style of it's own (compared to a lot of other film music anyway), and
rewards repeated listens, so stick with it!.

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