Filming in Montmartre, the 18th arrondissement of Paris
The butte is the highest ground in the city and some of the ways up it are stairs rather than streets. Amélie was shot here in 2000.
What Montmartre looks like
The butte is the highest ground in Paris, 130.53 metres at the natural surface inside the Cimetière du Calvaire. Every street on the south face climbs. Some of the ways up are stairs rather than streets. is 222 steps beside the funicular. was cut after 1809 to give a gentler way up and still averages about seven per cent.
Montmartre was its own commune until Paris annexed it in 1860, and most of the streets on the butte were laid out before that.
The hill is gypsum and it was quarried for plaster, so there are galleries under it. When work started on the Sacré-Cœur in 1875 the builders sank 83 shafts thirty-three metres deep and swapped 35,000 cubic metres of loose ground for stone and concrete. Paul Abadie chose Château-Landon limestone, which whitens in the rain. The church was consecrated in 1919 and finished in 1923.
Two of the windmills that stood on the butte are left, both on rue Lepic. The Blute-fin at 75 to 77 still works and stands in private ground. The Radet was emptied of its machinery in 1924 and put on a restaurant roof at the corner of 83 rue Lepic and rue Girardon.
and the terraces below the basilica are where the visitors are. The north slope is quieter. The city planted the there in 1933, 0.15 hectare of vines between rue des Saules and rue Saint-Vincent, picked in mid October. is at the corner of rue de l'Abreuvoir, pink with green shutters.
Films shot in Montmartre
Jean-Pierre Jeunet shot Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain here between 2 March and 7 July 2000. Amélie waits tables at the Café des 2 Moulins at 15 rue Lepic, on the corner of rue Cauchois. It is still open. Collignon's grocery is at 56 rue des Trois-Frères on the corner of rue Androuet. It trades under its own name, Au Marché de la Butte. The tobacco counter Georgette stands behind closed in 2002 when the café changed hands.
Amélie, 2001
Amélie sets Nino a trail so that she can give him back the photo album he lost. It starts at the bottom of the square and works up it, with blue arrows painted on the curving paths and on the steps. She puts the album on his bike while he is near the top. The telescope he looks through on one of the terraces has since been taken away.
What Montmartre can double for
Montmartre can stand in for a small French town of shuttered houses and cobbles, a hill town where the streets give out and turn into stairs and an old quarter of narrow streets and low houses.
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