Amélie is the name of a cult film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, known as Amélie (The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain).
The famous resident of the Montmartre neighborhood has sparked the interest of thousands of visitors to 18th arrondissement of Paris and especially to the locations where this now-classic film was shot.
The free tour of Montmartre passes through some of the film's shooting locations, including the Café des Deux Moulins. It's a great opportunity to discover curious facts about the Paris of Amélie.
If you want to embark on the recorrido por el París de Amélie we're suggesting, the first thing you'll need to do is get a map of Paris with the streets of Montmartre marked on it, or use the map we created for you at the end of this post.
Next, make your way to the Blanche metro station (blue line M2) which, although it doesn't appear in the film, is where our route begins.
Al salir de la estación, si aún no lo has visto, tómate unos minutos para admirar el Moulin Rouge, ya que se encuentra a pocos metros de la salida)
Amélie Route in Montmartre
Cafe des 2 moulins
Head up Rue Lepic, street and at the end of the first block, you'll find on the first corner to the left the "Cafe des 2 moulins». The café where Amélie worked. The food is nothing special, but the staff are friendly and are completely used to visitors who stop in just for a coffee or a photo.
Not everything inside remains intact, but many details have been preserved, and it's the place where you'll most feel that you could run into Amélie at any moment.
Dirección:15 rue Lepic, 75018 Paris
Studio 28
If you continue up Rue Lepic, the street curves to the left; on the right is Rue des Abbesses, and directly ahead, carrying straight on, is Rue Tholozé. On this street you'll find the cinema Studio 28. This is the location where the scene was filmed in which Amélie turns around in the dark to watch the faces of the audience during a movie — one of the things she loves to do.
Cinéma Studio 28 has a very interesting program, and at the back there is a charming little café/bar.
Dirección: 10 Rue Tholozé
Epicerie Collignon
Leaving the Studio 28, go a little further up to Rue Durantin, and if you continue to the right for about a couple of blocks, you will reach the fruit shop Au Marché de la Butte, o como se llama en la peli, Epicerie Collignon.
The fruit shop Au Marché de la Butte, located on Rue des Trois Fréres was converted into Epicerie Collignon during filming.
The name Collignon you surely remember — it was the name of the unfriendly store owner. Today, the shop is almost intact; they have even kept the sign with the name used in the film.
Among the fruit, habita un duende de jardín paying tribute to the one who traveled the world in the film, and a poster from the movie that helps identify it more easily. Postcards and other souvenirs related to Amélie are also available for purchase.
Above the fruit shop is the building whose façade served as casa de Amélie, although the scenes in her apartment and those of her neighbors were filmed in a German studio.
Dirección: 56 Rue des Trois Frères
Saint Pierre. Sacre Coeur
The Plaza Saint Pierre is located at the foot of Sacré-Cœur, one of the most famous viewpoints in Paris in Paris. It is from here that Amélie calls Nino by phone (from a phone booth placed there solely for filming) to hand over the photo album.
This is where the precioso carrusel that appears in one of the scenes is located, and where the steps leading up to the viewpoint of the Sagrado Corazón. From this viewpoint, Nino watches through public binoculars as Amélie leaves the album in the luggage of his motorbike.
Dirección: Pl. Saint-Pierre
Para terminar el recorrido, te sugerimos otros lugares que aparecen en la película Amélie que puedes visitar:
In Montmartre
- The film begins with a fly buzzing over Rue Saint Vicent in Montmartre. It is right at the corner where this street meets Rue des Saules.
- The place where Nino works is the sex shop Palace Video, located at number 37 on the Boulevard de Clichy.
En otros puntos de la ciudad
- The scene in which a tourist falls on Amélie's mother, killing her instantly, was filmed at Notre-Dame Cathedral.
- The name of the Metro Abbessesstation appears in the film. It is where Amélie and Nino's first encounter takes place, and where she gives some coins to a blind man. However, the scenes were not filmed here — they were shot at Porte des Lilas. The station where the scenes in which Nino puts up the posters of Amélie were filmed is La Motte-Picqet-Grenelle.
- Amélie liked to skip stones on the river to relax. This charming scene, whose still frame appears above in the post, was filmed at the Canal de St Martin. You can take metro line 5 to the Jacques Bonsergent stop to visit this area.
- The bridge that Amélie crosses after having handed the memory box to Bretodeau is the Puente de las Artes, the same one where lovers from around the world leave their candados de amor eterno. This is very close to the Louvre (info).
If you enjoyed this route, we invite you to take a look at the route through the filming locations of Emily in Paris, another of the famous itineraries in Paris related to pop culture
