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Amelie Needs a Baseball Bat to the Head

Oh yes yes yes. Add “every female in a Sofia Coppola film” to this list.


“Decorous females who insist on playing up their capacity for child-like wonder help to make an already anodyne universe that little bit worse. Both untouchable and non-threatening, they equate to air fresheners: up against such fragrance, how can natural smells not seem nasty?”


Link stolen from Greencine, as always the best film site ever.

2 Responses to “Amelie Needs a Baseball Bat to the Head”

  1. cinetrix
    March 16th, 2004 | 1:13 pm

    I’m with you, sister. This article is right on the money. I am totally swiping this link [with attribution]. Yrs. in rage…

  2. cynthia rockwell
    March 16th, 2004 | 2:47 pm

    here here, sistah