Dufayel recognizes this, and uses the girl in the painting to push Amélie to examine her attraction to a quirky young man, Nino Quincampoix ( Mathieu Kassovitz), who collects the discarded photographs of strangers from passport photo booths. They discuss the meaning of this character, and over several conversations Amélie begins projecting her loneliness onto the image. Although he has copied the same painting 20 times, he has never quite captured the look of the girl drinking a glass of water. Dufayel, having observed Amélie, begins a conversation with her about his painting, a copy of Luncheon of the Boating Party. A delighted Lucien takes charge at the grocery stand. Mentally exhausted, Collignon no longer abuses his meek but good-natured assistant Lucien ( Jamel Debbouze). She uses gaslighting tactics on Collignon ( Urbain Cancelier), the nasty greengrocer. She convinces Madeleine Wells ( Yolande Moreau), who lives on her block of flats, that the husband who abandoned her had sent her a final conciliatory love letter just before his accidental death years before. She starts a romance between her hypochondriacal co-worker Georgette ( Isabelle Nanty) and Joseph ( Dominique Pinon), one of the customers in the bar. She persuades her father to follow his dream of touring the world by stealing his garden gnome and having a flight attendant friend airmail pictures of it posing with landmarks from all over the world. She escorts a blind man to the Métro station, giving him a rich description of the street scenes he passes.
Amélie happily embarks on her new mission.Īmélie secretly executes complex schemes that affect the lives of those around her.
Moved to tears by the discovery and the memories it holds, Bretodeau resolves to reconcile with his estranged daughter and the grandson he has never met. Amélie quickly finds the man, Dominique Bretodeau ( Maurice Bénichou), and surreptitiously gives him the box. He correctly recalls the boy's name as "Bretodeau". She promises herself that if it makes him happy, she will devote her life to bringing happiness to others.Īfter inquiring the apartment's concierge and several old tenants about the boy's identity, Amélie meets her reclusive neighbour, Raymond Dufayel ( Serge Merlin), an artist with brittle bone disease who repaints Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir every year. Amélie resolves to track down the boy and return the box to him. On 30 August 1997, startled by the news of the death of Princess Diana, Amélie drops a plastic perfume-stopper which dislodges a wall tile and accidentally reveals an old metal box of childhood memorabilia hidden by a boy who lived in her apartment decades earlier. Single but not a virgin, she finds contentment in simple pleasures like dipping her hand into grain sacks and cracking creme brulee with a spoon and lets her imagination roam free. Amélie leaves home at the age of 18 and becomes a waitress at the Café des 2 Moulins in Montmartre, which is staffed and frequented by a collection of eccentrics. As a result, her father Raphaël's ( Rufus) withdrawal from society worsens.
When Amélie is six, her mother, Amandine ( Lorella Cravotta), is killed when a suicidal Canadian tourist jumps from a church roof and lands on her. To cope with her loneliness, Amélie develops an active imagination and a mischievous personality. Amélie Poulain (Tautou) is born in February 1974 and raised by eccentric parents who – incorrectly believing that she has a heart defect – decide to home school her.
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