On April 25, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie turned 25. In the years since, it’s become a regular namedrop among American film buffs. But its success in France was immediate—a moment frozen in time for my family, given it opened the week I was born. Not a single person who visited my mother’s hospital room in Paris could resist mentioning its breakout star, Audrey Tautou, or the film’s singular energy, modernity, and score. And what a score: Yann Tiersen’s accordion-driven, jaunty yet mysterious compositions are inseparable from the film’s whimsy. Jeunet’s hyper-saturated Montmartre, equal parts myth and real city, still holds, even within the corny and unfortunate Instagram world of Emily in Paris. Amélie is back in cinemas for its anniversary, showing at London’s Prince Charles Cinema until early June. —Jeanne Malle