-On September 3, 1973 6:28 pm and 32 sec.
a blue fly of the Calliphorides species,
whose wings can flutter 14670 times per minute
landed in Saint-Vincent Street, Montmartre.
At the exact same second, outside a restaurant,
the wind was sweeping in under a tablecloth,
causing the glasses to dance without anybody noticing it.
At the same time, on the fifth floor of avenue Trudaine,
Eugène Koler, erased the name of his best friend, Émile Maginot,
in his adress-book after coming home from his funeral.
Still at the same second, a spermatozoon
containing an X-chromosome and belonging to M. Raphaël Poulain
was reaching the ovum of Mrs Poulain,
born Amandine Fouet.
months later a girl was born:
Amélie Poulain.
-Amélie's father was a former army doctor,
and was working at the hydropathic establishment of Enghien-les-Bains.
Raphaël Poulain doesn't like
peeing next to somebody else.
He doesn't like
noticing people laughing at his sandals .
.coming out of the water with his swimming suit sticking to his body
Raphaël Poulain likes
to tear big pieces of wallpaper off the walls
to line up his shoes and polish them with great care
to empty his toolbox,
clean it thoroughly,
and, finally, put everything away carefully.
Amélie's mother, Amandine Fouet,
was a Primary School teacher from Gueugnon,
she had always been unstable and nervy.
She doesn't like to have her fingers all wrinkled by hot water.
She doesn't like it when somebody she doesn't like
touches her,
to have the marks of the sheets on her cheek in the morning.
She likes the outfits of the ice-skaters on TV.
to shine the flooring.
to empty her handbag
clean it thoroughly,
and, finally, putting everything away carefully.
Amélie is years old.
She would like her father to hold her in his arms from time to time.
But the only contact they have is during the monthly medical check-up.
Moved by this intimacy, the little girl
can't stop her heart from beating wildly.
As a result,
her father believes she suffers from a heart disease.
Because of this fictitious illness, she doesn't go to school.
Her mother acts as her private tutor.
-"The . chicken . often .
hatch . in . the . convent."
-"The chicken ."
-Very good.
-hatch often. -No !
-With no contact with other children,
and mollycoddled by her parents,
Amélie's only refuge is the world she makes up.
In that world, vinyls are made the same way as pancakes,
and the neighbour's wife, who has been in a coma for months,
just decided to do all her sleeping at once.
-This way, I'll stay awake night and day for the rest of my life.
-Amélie's only friend is called "the Cachalot".
But the atmosphere at home turned it into a neurasthenic and suicidal fish.
-Since these suicide-attempts only increased her mother's stress,
a decision is taken .
-ENOUGH !!!
-In order to comfort Amélie,
her mother gives her a second-hand Kodak.
-What have you done?
-A neighbour makes her believe that her camera causes accidents to happen.
Since she's been taking pictures all afternoon,
Amélie finds herself in deep worry in the evening.
She collapses in front of the televison, feeling guilty
for a fire,
derailments and the crash of a Boeing .
Later on, Amélie realizes that the neighbour had made fun of her,
and decides to take her revenge.
-But, what the .
You be careful!
-and then, one day, tragedy struck her.
Like every year, her mother had taken her to church to lit a candle
so that Heaven would send her a little brother.
The divine answer came minutes later
Alas, it wasn't a newborn that fell out of the sky
but a tourist from Quebec, determined to end her life.
Amandine Poulain, born Fouet, is killed outright.
After her mother's death,
Amélie finds herself alone with her father.
The latter withdraws into himself even more.
He starts to build a miniature mausoleum,
for the ashes of his beloved wife.
Days, months, then years go by .
The outside world seems so dull
That Amélie prefers to dream her life until she's old enough to leave.
years later, Amélie is a waitress in a bar in Montmartre,
"les Deux Moulins".
Today's August,
in hours, the destiny of Amélie Poulain will take a different turn.
but right now, she has no idea of what's going to happen.
For her, life goes on with her collegues and the regulars.
This is Suzanne, the landlady.
She limps a little, but has never spilled the slightest drop.
When she was young, she used to be a horse-dancer. She likes
sportsmen who cry from disappointment.
She doesn't like it when a man is humiliated in front of his kid.
The tobacconist is Georgette, the hypochondriac.
When it's not a migraine, it's the sciatic nerve that's trapped.
She doesn't like to hear
"le fruit de vos entrailles est béni."
This is Gina, Amélie's colleague, granddaughter of a healer.
She likes to crack her fingers.
Here you can see her bringing a Kir to Hipolito, the not-successful writer.
What he likes is to see a bullfighter getting gored.
This is Joseph. Gina's jealous ex-lover.
He spies on her to see if she's replaced him.
The only thing he likes
is to pop the bubbles of plastic wrappings.
And finally, there's Philomène, the air hostess.
Amélie looks after her cat when she's away. She likes
the sound of the bowl with water on the floor. As for the cat,
he likes to listen to children's stories.
-No thanks, ma'am, I never work on Sundays.
-Amélie often goes to see her father, during the WE, by train.
-Why don't you enjoy your retirement, and . -Do what?
-Travel, you never left Enghien.
-When we were young, your mother and me,
we'd have liked to travel, but we never could.
Because of your heart. -Yes, I know.
-And now, . Now .
-Sometimes, Amélie goes to the movies.
-I like to turn around in the dark to see the faces of the people around.
And I also like to spot the little detail nobody will ever see.
But I don't like it when the driver doesn't watch the road.
-Amélie doesn't have a boyfriend.
She tried, but it didn't live up to her expectations.
On the other hand, she enjoys all sorts of little pleasures,
putting her hand in a bag of seeds,
piercing the crust of crème brûlée
with the tip of a spoon.
And play at ducks and drakes on the Saint-Martin-canal.
-This is the cristal-man.
Because of an illness, his bones break like cristal.
All his furniture is fleece-lined.
A hand shake is enough to break his finger-bones,
so he never goes out.
Time hasn't changed anything. Amélie still shelters in solitude
and asks herself silly questions about the world or about this town.
For example, how many couples are having an orgasm right now?
-Fifteen .
-And finally, the night of August .
This is what will change the life of Amélie Poulain totally.
*-Good evening.
The Princess of Wales, Lady Di died this afternoon in a car crash.
She was with her friend .
Only the first man to enter the grave of Toutankhamon
may understand how Amélie felt
when she discovered the treasure that had been hid by a little boy.
On the st of August, at in the morning
Amélie suddenly has a luminous idea.
She is going to find the owner of this box
and return his treasure to him.
If he's moved, that's it, she'll start to mingle with other people's lives.
If not, well, too bad.
-Oh, the young missie of the th floor. We don't often see you.
-Excuse me. Did a little boy use to live in my flat in the ies ?
-Come in and have a drink.
-No, thanks. -Yes, come in. Close the door.
Oh, kids . I've known so many!
At first, they're cute, and then they start throwing snowballs
I know. -How long have you been here?
-Since .
People must have told you.
-No.
Sit down.
-On September 3, 1973 6:28 pm and 32 sec.
a blue fly of the Calliphorides species,
whose wings can flutter 14670 times per minute
landed in Saint-Vincent Street, Montmartre.
At the exact same second, outside a restaurant,
the wind was sweeping in under a tablecloth,
causing the glasses to dance without anybody noticing it.
At the same time, on the fifth floor of avenue Trudaine,
Eugène Koler, erased the name of his best friend, Émile Maginot,
in his adress-book after coming home from his funeral.
Still at the same second, a spermatozoon
containing an X-chromosome and belonging to M. Raphaël Poulain
was reaching the ovum of Mrs Poulain,
born Amandine Fouet.
months later a girl was born:
Amélie Poulain.
-Amélie's father was a former army doctor,
and was working at the hydropathic establishment of Enghien-les-Bains.
Raphaël Poulain doesn't like
peeing next to somebody else.
He doesn't like
noticing people laughing at his sandals .
.coming out of the water with his swimming suit sticking to his body
Raphaël Poulain likes
to tear big pieces of wallpaper off the walls
to line up his shoes and polish them with great care
to empty his toolbox,
clean it thoroughly,
and, finally, put everything away carefully.
Amélie's mother, Amandine Fouet,
was a Primary School teacher from Gueugnon,
she had always been unstable and nervy.
She doesn't like to have her fingers all wrinkled by hot water.
She doesn't like it when somebody she doesn't like
touches her,
to have the marks of the sheets on her cheek in the morning.
She likes the outfits of the ice-skaters on TV.
to shine the flooring.
to empty her handbag
clean it thoroughly,
and, finally, putting everything away carefully.
Amélie is years old.
She would like her father to hold her in his arms from time to time.
But the only contact they have is during the monthly medical check-up.
Moved by this intimacy, the little girl
can't stop her heart from beating wildly.
As a result,
her father believes she suffers from a heart disease.
Because of this fictitious illness, she doesn't go to school.
Her mother acts as her private tutor.
-"The . chicken . often .
hatch . in . the . convent."
-"The chicken ."
-Very good.
-hatch often. -No !
-With no contact with other children,
and mollycoddled by her parents,
Amélie's only refuge is the world she makes up.
In that world, vinyls are made the same way as pancakes,
and the neighbour's wife, who has been in a coma for months,
just decided to do all her sleeping at once.
-This way, I'll stay awake night and day for the rest of my life.
-Amélie's only friend is called "the Cachalot".
But the atmosphere at home turned it into a neurasthenic and suicidal fish.
-Since these suicide-attempts only increased her mother's stress,
a decision is taken .
-ENOUGH !!!
-In order to comfort Amélie,
her mother gives her a second-hand Kodak.
-What have you done?
-A neighbour makes her believe that her camera causes accidents to happen.
Since she's been taking pictures all afternoon,
Amélie finds herself in deep worry in the evening.
She collapses in front of the televison, feeling guilty
for a fire,
derailments and the crash of a Boeing .
Later on, Amélie realizes that the neighbour had made fun of her,
and decides to take her revenge.
-But, what the .
You be careful!
-and then, one day, tragedy struck her.
Like every year, her mother had taken her to church to lit a candle
so that Heaven would send her a little brother.
The divine answer came minutes later
Alas, it wasn't a newborn that fell out of the sky
but a tourist from Quebec, determined to end her life.
Amandine Poulain, born Fouet, is killed outright.
After her mother's death,
Amélie finds herself alone with her father.
The latter withdraws into himself even more.
He starts to build a miniature mausoleum,
for the ashes of his beloved wife.
Days, months, then years go by .
The outside world seems so dull
That Amélie prefers to dream her life until she's old enough to leave.
years later, Amélie is a waitress in a bar in Montmartre,
"les Deux Moulins".
Today's August,
in hours, the destiny of Amélie Poulain will take a different turn.
but right now, she has no idea of what's going to happen.
For her, life goes on with her collegues and the regulars.
This is Suzanne, the landlady.
She limps a little, but has never spilled the slightest drop.
When she was young, she used to be a horse-dancer. She likes
sportsmen who cry from disappointment.
She doesn't like it when a man is humiliated in front of his kid.
The tobacconist is Georgette, the hypochondriac.
When it's not a migraine, it's the sciatic nerve that's trapped.
She doesn't like to hear
"le fruit de vos entrailles est béni."
This is Gina, Amélie's colleague, granddaughter of a healer.
She likes to crack her fingers.
Here you can see her bringing a Kir to Hipolito, the not-successful writer.
What he likes is to see a bullfighter getting gored.
This is Joseph. Gina's jealous ex-lover.
He spies on her to see if she's replaced him.
The only thing he likes
is to pop the bubbles of plastic wrappings.
And finally, there's Philomène, the air hostess.
Amélie looks after her cat when she's away. She likes
the sound of the bowl with water on the floor. As for the cat,
he likes to listen to children's stories.
-No thanks, ma'am, I never work on Sundays.
-Amélie often goes to see her father, during the WE, by train.
-Why don't you enjoy your retirement, and . -Do what?
-Travel, you never left Enghien.
-When we were young, your mother and me,
we'd have liked to travel, but we never could.
Because of your heart. -Yes, I know.
-And now, . Now .
-Sometimes, Amélie goes to the movies.
-I like to turn around in the dark to see the faces of the people around.
And I also like to spot the little detail nobody will ever see.
But I don't like it when the driver doesn't watch the road.
-Amélie doesn't have a boyfriend.
She tried, but it didn't live up to her expectations.
On the other hand, she enjoys all sorts of little pleasures,
putting her hand in a bag of seeds,
piercing the crust of crème brûlée
with the tip of a spoon.
And play at ducks and drakes on the Saint-Martin-canal.
-This is the cristal-man.
Because of an illness, his bones break like cristal.
All his furniture is fleece-lined.
A hand shake is enough to break his finger-bones,
so he never goes out.
Time hasn't changed anything. Amélie still shelters in solitude
and asks herself silly questions about the world or about this town.
For example, how many couples are having an orgasm right now?
-Fifteen .
-And finally, the night of August .
This is what will change the life of Amélie Poulain totally.
*-Good evening.
The Princess of Wales, Lady Di died this afternoon in a car crash.
She was with her friend .
Only the first man to enter the grave of Toutankhamon
may understand how Amélie felt
when she discovered the treasure that had been hid by a little boy.
On the st of August, at in the morning
Amélie suddenly has a luminous idea.
She is going to find the owner of this box
and return his treasure to him.
If he's moved, that's it, she'll start to mingle with other people's lives.
If not, well, too bad.
-Oh, the young missie of the th floor. We don't often see you.
-Excuse me. Did a little boy use to live in my flat in the ies ?
-Come in and have a drink.
-No, thanks. -Yes, come in. Close the door.
Oh, kids . I've known so many!
At first, they're cute, and then they start throwing snowballs
I know. -How long have you been here?
-Since .
People must have told you.
-No.
Sit down.
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