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Amelie is an incredibly shy girl that is incredibly quirky and is in love with the world. She finds the scrapbook of a young man who collects discarded photobooth pictures and falls in love with him without meeting him. She is determined to meet him, but her shyness gets the way.
Jean-Jacques Jeunet is a brilliant filmmaker. His first 2 films- Delicatessen and City of Lost Children are much darker than Amelie, but have that same sort of quirky sense of humour and artistic vision.
As far as the Da Vinci code, I have not read the book nor have I seen the movie. It just sounds stupid to me. Gnostic writings are noncanonical to the bible for very obvious reasons. The idea of Christ having a bloodline was thus dismissed until royalty wanted a way to make their power seem even more of a mandate. So they said they were the descendants of Christ. Since the bible didn't support it, they looked to false gnostic writings about Christ. Which isn't that far fetched, since gnosticism and paganism are very similar and europeans were and are still very close to their pagan roots.
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