Amelie Movie Trivia
Memorable Movie Quotes
Amélie Poulain: At least you’ll never be a vegetable – even artichokes have hearts.
Bretodeau, The Box Man: Life’s funny. To a kid, time always drags. Suddenly you’re fifty. All that’s left of your childhood… fits in a rusty little box.
Trivia
Whenever this film was shot on location, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and the crew would clean the area of debris, grime, trash and graffiti, so that the real settings would match the fantastic nature of the film. This was an especially difficult task when it came time to shoot at the huge train station.
It was in 1974 that Jean-Pierre Jeunet began collecting the memories and events that make up the story of Amélie.
Audrey Tautou doesn’t know how to skip stones; the stone-skipping scenes were made with special effects.
Goofs
The treasure box Amélie finds in her bathroom contains a “Mini Quartett”, a children’s card game produced in Germany in the 1970s. Mr. Bretodeau could not have collected this in the 1950s.
Box Office Info In USA
Budget $10,000,000
Opening Weekend $136,470 (USA) (22 November 1998)
Gross $33,225,499
Filming Locations
Rue des Trois-Frères, Paris 18, Paris, France (Amelie’s home)
Café des Deux Moulins, 15 rue Lepic, Paris 18, Paris, France (café where Amelie works)
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (studio) (studio: apartment interiors)
Canal Saint-Martin, Paris 10, Paris, France (Amélie throws rocks over a water canal lock)
Gare de l’Est, Place du 11 novembre 1918, Paris 10, Paris, France (station)
Lamarck-Caulaincourt, Paris Metro, Paris 18, Paris, France
Rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, Paris, France (Dominique Bretodeau walks through the street to the phone booth)
Acqueduc de la Vanne, Arcueil, Val-de-Marne, France (Amélie looks for Collignon’s parents’ house)
Sex Shop “Tchiki Boom”, 71 boulevard de Clichy, Paris 18, Paris, France
Radio Ciné Rire, 11 boulevard Saint-Martin, Paris 3, Paris, France (Amélie buys a Zorro disguise in a joke shop)
Grand escalier de Montmartre, Paris 18, Paris, France
Rue Ernest Roche, Paris 17, Paris, France (Amélie and Nino on a scooter)
Le Verre à Pied Bar, 118 Rue Mouffetard, Paris, France (Bar where Amélie eavesdrops on Bretodeau sharing the story)
Station de métro Abbesses, Paris 18, Paris, France (subway)
Gare de Lyon, Paris 12, Paris, France (station)
Gare du Nord, 112 rue de Maubeuge, Paris 10, Paris, France (station)
Montmartre, Paris 18, Paris, France
Porte des Lilas, Le Métro, Paris, France
Rue Lepic, Paris 18, Paris, France
Basilique du Sacré-Coeur, 35 rue Chevalier de la Barre, Paris 18, Paris, France (Amélie asks herself questions over the rooftop and other scenes)
Strasbourg St. Denis, Paris 10, Paris, France
Maison des Associations, 3 rue Saint-Lambert, Eaubonne, Val-d’Oise, France (Amélie disconnects her neighbor’s aerial)
Rue Pierre Brossollette, Eaubonne, Val-d’Oise, France (Amélie as a child witnesses an accident)
Gare d’ Ermont-Eaubonne, rue des Bussys, Ermont, Val-d’Oise, France (railway station doubling as Enghien-les-Bains station)
Rue Saint-Vincent, Paris 18, Paris, France (a blue-bottle fly lands in Rue Saint-Vincent)
Épicerie “Au Marché de la Butte”, 56 rue des Trois Frères, Paris 18, Paris, France (scenes in Collignon’s grocer’s shop)
Ancienne station de métro Porte des Lilas Cinéma, Paris 19, Paris, France (homeless people in the subway) (Amélie first meets Nino)
Cinéma Studio 28, 10 rue Tholoze, Paris 18, Paris, France
Près de l’Acqueduc romain, Cachan, Val-de-Marne, France (Amélie calls on her father)
Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d’Oise, France
Pont des Arts, Paris 1, Paris, France (aménie in total harmony after her first good deed)
On a bridge over Canal Saint-Martin, Paris 10, Paris, France (Amélie skips rocks on the canal water) (Amélie releases her goldfish into the canal)
MMC Studios, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (Amèlie’s apartment interiors; tunnel of horror interiors)
3-7 Allée Chevillard, Eaubonne, Val-d’Oise, France (Amélie’s father’s home)
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France
La Chapelle, Paris 10, Paris, France (subway)
Paris 11, Paris, France (scene in a typical stairwell)