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...Whatever you call it, the movie is a touching, irrepressibly funny fable of an elfin café waitress who surreptitiously arranges fortuitous developments in the lives of people she knows. After circumstances deny her influence over her own destiny early in life, Amélie decides to outwit fate by manipulating events to fulfill the hopes and desires of others. Populating that plot is an array of stock characters from classic French cinema, updated with comically magnified conditions, obsessions and idiosyncrasies. Amélie's jilted concierge tipples port in the presence of a pet dog preserved by taxidermy...
...hostess bar called Casablanca, is the neon-lit playground of this civilization in decline, where Japanese Neros go to fiddle while their economy burns, where saked-up salarymen nuzzle Russian strippers and tea-haired twenty-somethings look to score designer drugs. The district is home to scores of dives, cafés, strip clubs, casinos and after-hours clubs catering to foreigners and to Japanese who like to hang out with them. The crowd - American bond-traders in Brooks Brothers suits, visiting models, second-rate rock stars, African bouncers, Israeli street vendors, drunken U.S. Marines, Pakistani pimps and assorted polyglot...
...testify to the city's defense system. Walking up and down the hilly streets could be tiring, a good reason to replenish your energies with the best ice cream this side of the Alps. Head for the restaurant of the Mövenpick Hotel in Ouchy and order a café glacé: two scoops of espresso ice cream swimming in iced coffee, topped with whipped cream, chopped nuts and warm chocolate syrup. After you taste this, you may never want to leave...
...Internet Café: La Fac, Rue Simplon 27 (behind the railway station). Internet access at $3 per half-hour. Daily 9 a.m. to noon and 2 p.m. to 9 p.m., Saturdays...
...Coffee Break: Le Barbare tearoom, Escalier du Marché 27. A charming café on a narrow cobblestone street in the middle of Old Town. Hot or cold chocolate topped with whipped cream are its specialties. Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., weekends 8:30 a.m. to midnight...