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...wears dark socks, sensible shoes, an unfashionable red sweater and, if anyone would notice, her heart on its sleeve. A waitress at the Two Windmills cafe in Paris, Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) is one of the legion of shy solitaries that few people seek out and fewer movies think to put at their center. But inside this gamine child of 23 is a priestess of the imagination, a ruthless schemer, a canny do-gooder, a lover. She has mischief in her, and a kind of secular sainthood...
...solitary child--her father distant, her severe mother dead--Amelie amused herself with hand puppets; her playmates are things. Now grown-up, a waitress, she seeks sensuous, not sensual, pleasures: cracking the shell of a creme brulee, skipping stones in the local canal. Her life changes on Aug. 31, 1997, with the news of Princess Diana's death. In surprise she drops a perfume stopper, which rolls toward the wall; behind a loose brick she discovers something else, a boy's prized chest of trinkets, 40 years old. She resolves to find out who the owner is. She gets...
...fine crust of a crème brûlée with a teaspoon. Home-schooled by neurotic, hugging-averse parents, she grows up painfully shy and enclosed in her own fantasy world. Unfortunately, her adult life doesn’t seem much better. She works as a waitress in a quintessentially Parisian café, where the regulars comprise a dysfunctional family of their own. But one day she discovers a box of toys in her apartment and resolves to find its owner. This sets her on a quest to improve the lives of her neighbors, which ranges from...
...reports of people bracing for a terrorist attack [AMERICA ON GUARD, Oct. 8]: A waitress at my local diner had a Middle Eastern man escorted out because he made her uncomfortable. Listening to the radio, I heard a woman say she is going to buy an expensive couch because it's the only way she knows how to help the country. I believe the U.S. has become a nation of idiots. Gas masks won't help, nor will flying that American flag you just bought. We must concentrate on peace, love and equality. STELLA BLUE Chicago...
...WIRELESS WAITRESS...