The Fabulous Destiny of Amlie Poulin

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The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulin
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Dominique Bredoteau

• 15 rue Col. Driant, 1er arrondissement
• 6 rue Jasmin, 16e arrondissement
• 5 rue Leon Lhermite, 15e arrondissement

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Amélies Footsteps
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15 Rue du Col. Driant (1er)

• In the film
• Inhabitant is young, appears slightly low income
• stairs, plants, and a window outside
• posters inside
• he is very nice to Amélie as she pretends to ask
  about a petition to canonize Lady Di.

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15 Rue du Col. Driant (1er)
Looking down the street was Bourse de Commerce,
to the left was Banque de France. There were so
many armed, uniformed officers that I did not
want to linger and look like a tourist taking
pictures of their bank. I asked a gas station
attendant about the address, and he had no idea
where it was, so I do not think this address
existed at all. I went into a café and asked
about the type of people who lived in this
arrondissement, but the worker pretended not to
understand me. That in itself said a lot about
the type of area this was strangers do not
interact on a personal level. It is an area that
is very professional, visited by many tourists
because of the Louvre, and an important economic
center.

Looking down Rue du Col. Driant at Bourse de
Commerce
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6 Rue Jasmin (16e)

• In the film
• Stone, ornate, architecture everything evoked a
  feeling of wealth.
• Amélie had to buzz and lie about why she was
  there to be let inside
• took an elevator to the third floor
• a strange exchange took place between Amélie and
  the occupant.

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6 Rue Jasmin (16e)

• I approached an older man who was watching me
  take
• pictures and asked who lived in this
  arrondissment, and he
• replied everyone. I did not believe him, but
  his response
• made me consider the differences between our
  perception of
• the place we live and the objective reality
  regarding the place
• we live. This was a calm, settled, traditional
  place and the
• buildings (architecture, layout) conveyed wealth.

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5 Rue Leon Lhermite (15e)

• In the film
• Amélie had to buzz a concierge
• A woman, dressed somewhat modestly in what looked
  like a housedress, descended grand-looking red
  carpeted spiral stairs
• Amélie asked where can I find Dominique Bredoteau
  and was told she just missed him
• A casket carrying the late Dominique Bredoteau
  descends
• A a lot of marble and stone, conveying some
  wealth, but the building looked bare

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5 Rue Leon Lhermite (15e)

• This area was not easy for me to classify
  walking though. I got a little lost, and some
  places I passed seemed very traditional and
  wealthy, while some seemed more middle-class. I
  saw no other tourists, and I had the feeling of
  walking thorough a close neighborhood despite
  seeing how large the 15e appeared on the map.

Square St. Lambert (art deco park)
Same street, two completely different sides.
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Dominique Bretodeau

• Movement
• 1) Pas-de-Calais. His family was from the
  north, an area looked down by true French
  people.
• 2) Amelies apartment in Montmartre (18e)
• 3) 27 Rue Mouffetard (6e)

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27 Rue Mouffetard (6e)

• In the film, it looked like Bretodeau lived in a
  village in the country somewhere very quaint
  and rural.

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27 Rue Mouffetard (6e)

• I had to walk past the Pantheon to get to this
  address, which gave me the feeling that this
  village-like street was out of sync with its
  surroundings. Buildings and shops were simple,
  and there were open-air markets. There was a
  square that unexpectedly created a center.

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La Basilique du Sacré Coeur de Montmartre (18e)
It draws more visitors yearly than Notre Dame.
-Irreverent Guide to Paris You havent really
seen the city until youve viewed it from these
famous steps high above the city It was meant to
symbolize the return of self-confidence to
late-19th-century Paris. Even so, the building
reflected political divisions within the country
it was largely financed by French Catholics
fearful of an anticlerical backlash and
determined to make a grandiloquent statement on
behalf of the Church. Construction lasted until
World War I the basilica was not consecrated
until 1919. Romanesque and Byzantine
architecture the church is strangely disjointed
and unsettlingtry to visit at sunrise or long
after sunset, as otherwise this area is crammed
with bus groups, young lovers, postcard sellers,
guitar-wielding Christians, and sticky-finger
types be extra cautious with your
valuables. -Fodors

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Ménage (18e)
Place Willette is at the foot of the Sacré Coeur
steps. It is an Italian-built carousel, whose
painted ceiling features Venetian canals.
However, the plastic horses are decorated with
pink and blue eagle feathers and an American Wild
West theme. "The carousel is a French
invention," says Zeev Gourarier, a curator at
the National Museum of Folk Art and Popular
Traditions in the Bois de Boulogne.
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L épicerie Collignon (18e)
The stores window is filled with newspaper
clippings and articles about the film.
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Café Les Deux Moulins (18e)
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Canal St. Martin (10e)

• the up and coming area of the Canal St Martin
  is becoming quite sought after making it one of
  the more expensive parts of the tenth. It is the
  only area to offer any real sense of community.

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Notre Dame (4e)

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• Part of the film's attraction, and part of what
  draws people to this neighborhood, is that it
  offers a nostalgic view of a Paris that no longer
  exists and perhaps never did. The film has been
  praised as charming and feel-good and criticized
  as saccharine, even fascistic. There is no
  graffiti or trash in the Métro. Indeed, in making
  his film, Mr. Jeunet unclogged the streets of too
  many cars, scrubbed graffiti off walls and used
  rose and golden lenses.