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hwp -On September 3, 1973 6:28 pm and 32 sec.
a blue fly of the Calliphorides species,
whose wings can flutter 14670 times per minute
landed in Saint-Vincent Street, Montmartre.
At the exact same second, outside a restaurant,
the wind was sweeping in under a tablecloth,
causing the glasses to dance without anybody noticing it.
At the same time, on the fifth floor of avenue Trudaine,
Eugne Koler, erased the name of his best friend, mile Maginot,
in his adress-book after coming home from his funeral.
Still at the same second, a spermatozoon
containing an X-chromosome and belonging to M. Raphal Poulain
was reaching the ovum of Mrs Poulain,
born Amandine Fouet.
months later a girl was born:
Amlie Poulain.
-Amlies father was a former army doctor,
and was working at the hydropathic establishment of Enghien-les-Bains.
Raphal Poulain doesnt like
peeing next to somebody else.
He doesnt like
noticing people laughing at his sandals .
.coming out of the water with his swimming suit sticking to his body
Raphal Poulain likes
to tear big pieces of wallpaper off the walls
to line up his shoes and polish them with great care
to empty his toolbox,
clean it thoroughly,
and, finally, put everything away carefully.
Amlies mother, Amandine Fouet,
was a Primary School teacher from Gueugnon,
she had always been unstable and nervy.
She doesnt like to have her fingers all wrinkled by hot water.
She doesnt like it when somebody she doesnt like
touches her,
to have the marks of the sheets on her cheek in the morning.
She likes the outfits of the ice-skaters on TV.
to shine the flooring.
to empty her handbag
clean it thoroughly,
and, finally, putting everything away carefully.
Amlie is years old.
She would like her father to hold her in his arms from time to time.
But the only contact they have is during the monthly medical check-up.
Moved by this intimacy, the little girl
cant stop her heart from beating wildly.
As a result,
her father believes she suffers from a heart disease.
Because of this fictitious illness, she doesnt go to school.
Her mother acts as her private tutor.
-"The . chicken . often .
hatch . in . the . convent."
-"The chicken ."
-Very good.
-hatch often. -No !
-With no contact with other children,
and mollycoddled by her parents,
Amlies only refuge is the world she makes up.
In that world, vinyls are made the same way as pancakes,
and the neighbours wife, who has been in a coma for months,
just decided to do all her sleeping at once.
-This way, Ill stay awake night and day for the rest of my life.
-Amlies only friend is called "the Cachalot".
But the atmosphere at home turned it into a neurasthenic and suicidal fish.
-Since these suicide-attempts only increased her mothers stress,
a decision is taken .
-ENOUGH !!!
-In order to comfort Amlie,
her mother gives her a second-hand Kodak.
-What have you done?
-A neighbour makes her believe that her camera causes accidents to happen.
Since shes been taking pictures all afternoon,
Amlie finds herself in deep worry in the evening.
She collapses in front of the televison, feeling guilty
for a fire,
derailments and the crash of a Boeing .
Later on, Amlie realizes that the neighbour had made fun of her,
and decides to take her revenge.
-But, what the .
You be careful!
-and then, one day, tragedy struck her.
Like every year, her mother had taken her to church to lit a candle
so that Heaven would send her a little brother.
The divine answer came minutes later
Alas, it wasnt a newborn that fell out of the sky
but a tourist from Quebec, determined to end her life.
Amandine Poulain, born Fouet, is killed outright.
After her mothers death,
Amlie finds herself alone with her father.
The latter withdraws into himself even more.
He starts to build a miniature mausoleum,
for the ashes of his beloved wife.
Days, months, then years go by .
The outside world seems so dull
That Amlie prefers to dream her life until shes old enough to leave.
years later, Amlie is a waitress in a bar in Montmartre,
"les Deux Moulins".
Todays August,
in hours, the destiny of Amlie Poulain will take a different turn.
but right now, she has no idea of whats going to happen.
For her, life goes on with her collegues and the regulars.
This is Suzanne, the landlady.
She limps a little, but has never spilled the slightest drop.
When she was young, she used to be a horse-dancer. She likes
sportsmen who cry from disappointment.
She doesnt like it when a man is humiliated in front of his kid.
The tobacconist is Georgette, the hypochondriac.
When its not a migraine, its the sciatic nerve thats trapped.
She doesnt like to hear
"le fruit de vos entrailles est bni."
This is Gina, Amlies colleague, granddaughter of a healer.
She likes to crack her fingers.
Here you can see her bringing a Kir to Hipolito, the not-successful writer.
What he likes is to see a bullfighter getting gored.
This is Joseph. Ginas jealous ex-lover.
He spies on her to see if shes replaced him.
The onl
