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    Amelie lives a lonely childhood after her mother's death and works as a waitress in Paris as an adult, where she discovers a hidden box of treasures from the 1950s and endeavors to reunite it with its owner, a man named Nino. Through this act and others where she secretly helps others find happiness, Amelie learns about love, though she struggles to find it herself. The film also follows the story of a mysterious man who repeatedly photographs himself in photo booths across Paris only to discard the photos, leaving his true identity in question.

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    Amelie lives a lonely childhood after her mother's death and works as a waitress in Paris as an adult, where she discovers a hidden box of treasures from the 1950s and endeavors to reunite it with its owner, a man named Nino. Through this act and others where she secretly helps others find happiness, Amelie learns about love, though she struggles to find it herself. The film also follows the story of a mysterious man who repeatedly photographs himself in photo booths across Paris only to discard the photos, leaving his true identity in question.

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    The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain

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    María Paz López Parra
    Amelie lives a lonely childhood after her mother's death and works as a waitress in Paris as an adult, where she discovers a hidden box of treasures from the 1950s and endeavors to reunite it with its owner, a man named Nino. Through this act and others where she secretly helps others find happiness, Amelie learns about love, though she struggles to find it herself. The film also follows the story of a mysterious man who repeatedly photographs himself in photo booths across Paris only to discard the photos, leaving his true identity in question.

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    "The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain"

    PLOT: As a child, Amelie lived a very sheltered life, didn't go to school, and had no friends. When she was six, her mother suddenly died, leaving her with her indifferent father. When she is 23, and having left home, she is working in a cafe in Paris. On the day Princess Diana is killed in a car crash, she discovers a box hidden in her flat, containing some treasured objects that a young boy hid away in the 1950's. She decides to find him, and give it back to him. She succeeds, making this man happy, and now sets out to make everybody she can happy, in subtle and amusing ways. But she doesn't do so well in making herself happy. Amelie finds Nino, and devises complicated ways of returning it to him. Although she loves him, can Amelie bring herself to meet him? In the photo album, there is also a mysterious man who keeps reappearing: taking his picture in photo booths all over Paris, only to throw them away. Is he someone afraid of growing old, or a dead man who is afraid of being forgotten? Characters: Amelie: an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, she discovers love. Nino: a young man who Amelie fancies, collects discarded photos from photo booths, and sticks them in an album, which he loses Raymond Dufayel: a painter who continually repaints Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He is known as 'the Glass Man' because of his brittle bone condition. Raphal Poulain: Amelies father, he is a solitary man .also he is a overprotective and cold father.

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