Amelie Timeline

1.  We are introduce to an idyllic Paris with seemingly insignificant details – bluebottles flying, glasses dancing
2. Title sequence with Amelie indulging in childhood activities – eating strawberries from fingers, creating a face with her hand, making noises using the top of a wine glass, spinning coins etc.
3. Meet Amelie’s mother and father we find out their Likes / Dislikes
4. We see Amelie as a six year old. Her father treats her like a patient and her mother like

   a student. As Amelie get excited with contrast from her father her heart beats fast – he diagnoses her as having a heart defect and declares her unfit for school.
5. Amelie resorts to a childhood where her imagination runs riot, she thinks records are like pancakes, imagines playing doctors with monsters and has a suicidal goldfish as her only friend – whom she then has to set free. (On a bridge we later see her skimming stones)
6. Amelie takes pictures with a used camera – again her imagination is clear with clouds becoming rabbits and bears. Following a crash a neighbour makes her think it is her photos that caused the crash. When she sees the news she thinks her camera has caused major accidents. Realising she’s been tricked she gets her own back by ruining the football.
7. Amelie’s mother is killed by a suicidal tourist. Dad becomes a recluse
8. Forward to Amelie as a young adult – working is Les Deux Moulin (Two Windmills) in Montmartre
9. We meet her co-workers, a Former Circus performer, a hypochondriac, a rejected lover, an airhostess .
10. On her way to visit her father she offers money to a homeless man who replies, ‘No Thankyou, I don’t work on Sundays.’
11. We see Amelie’s Likes / Dislikes. Plunging hand into grain, breaking Crème Brule, skimming stones, We learn relationships have been a disappointment for her.
12. We meet the glass man (Dufayel) – his bones are so brittle he can’t leave. He films a clock on a camera as he is unable to wind up his own, he paints recreations of famous paintings  - a link to the artists of Montmartre,
13. When she hears of Princess Diana’s Death she drops a bottle top which reveals the location of a hidden box – left by a former inhabitant of the house. She vows to find the owner.
14. She asks Madeleine, the concierge of the apartment who used to live there. Madeleine tells of how her husband left her. Before this he used to write her letters.
15. Amelie then sees Collingnon, the grocer to find out who lived in her apartment. He is mean about his assistant Lucien. Collingnon sends her to his parents They give her the name Bredoteau .
16. She walks along an empty subway, containing only a blind man and sees Nino rummaging under a photobooth. We see also that Nino had a tough childhood – bullied by his peers.
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