Audrey Tautou was just beginning to happen when she made this movie; she'd appeared in a good half dozen films of which the best by far was Tonie Marshall's Venus Beaute in which she got to play alongside Nathalie Baye, Mathilde Seigner and Micheline Presle where she couldn't help picking up some strong tips on technique. She made God is Great back to back with Amelie and, as luck would have it, Amelie was first out of the gate and the rest as they say ... So what of this; well, it's patchy, quirky and the director has an annoying habit of cutting to Black in the middle of a scene and sometimes coming back to it a few seconds later as if the film had run out and they couldn't afford another complete Take so they just carried on after they reloaded. Eccentric is a good word to describe it though I accept that some viewers will opt for charming. It's one of those where if you're in the right mood you'll respond but if you're not there's a chance it could irritate you.
Review of God Is Great and I'm Not
