The Paris locations of Amélie

Jean-Pierre Jeunet shot Amélie across a real city and then repainted it, so the addresses below are genuine while the film's version of them often is not: the interiors were built in a studio in Cologne, and the station facade announced as Gare de l'Est is Gare du Nord with one word altered in post. What is gathered here is the part that stayed put, the cobbles, the counters, the double staircase and the greengrocer that took the film's name after the crew left. Where a location has been rebuilt since 2001, the entry says so.

Places in this collection

  • Rue Saint-Vincent — The film's first shot follows a bluebottle along this cobbled street at the corner of rue des Saules, on the quiet north slope behind the S…
  • Lamarck-Caulaincourt — The station with the double staircase running down either side of the entrance, where Amélie takes a blind man by the arm and narrates the…
  • Pont des Arts — The footbridge by the Louvre where Amélie is overtaken by the urge to help strangers. Its wooden deck had already carried the failed suicid…
  • Le Verre à Pied — The bar where Amélie overhears what her returned box of mementoes has done to Bretodeau, at the southern end of rue Mouffetard in the 5th.…
  • Au Marché de la Butte — The greengrocer's where Collignon bullies his assistant Lucien, on the corner of rue des Trois Frères and rue Androuet, a few doors from th…
  • Foire du Trône — Nino works the ghost train, and Amélie goes to the fair to find him. The Foire du Trône is the largest travelling funfair in Europe and set…
  • Studio 28 — The cinema Amélie visits on Friday nights is a real one, on rue Tholozé since the silent era and still programming as an art et essai house…
  • Notre-Dame de Paris — Amélie's mother dies in the film when a suicidal Canadian tourist jumps from the cathedral roof and lands on her, a scene Jeunet drew from…
  • Abbesses — Amélie and Nino first cross paths here, on the line 12 platform 36 metres below Montmartre, which makes Abbesses the deepest station on the…
  • Gare de l'Est — The narration announces that Amélie arrives at the Gare de l'Est photo booth, but the facade on screen is Gare du Nord, with the word NORD…
  • Canal Saint-Martin — The stone-skipping scene is set on these quays, and the canal is the one place outside Montmartre the character is given as her own ground.…
  • Café des 2 Moulins — Amélie Poulain waits tables here in Jeunet's 2001 film, and the brasserie has traded on it ever since; the OSM entry now simply describes i…

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