This Beautiful Fantastic (Simon Aboud, 2016)

Bella Brown, an oddball girl with a phobia of plants and the dress sense of Winona Ryder's character from Beetlejuice, works in a library and dreams of becoming a children's book author. She's forced to confront her qualms when she comes under the threat of eviction for not maintaining her garden, and then also has to deal with her misanthropic neighbour.
The film attracted many comparisons with Amélie for its whimsical tone and headstrong but sweet protagonist, and mostly suffers under those comparisons, particularly when she meets an inventor of mechanical toys and is encouraged to start telling him the silly outline of her future book. Taken on its own, however, it's perfectly charming even if totally featherweight, and benefits from a good set of comic performances, Tom Wilkinson as the curmudgeon next door and Anna Chancellor as her humourless boss at the library being the stand-out ones.

5/10