Café des Deux Moulins

This guide to the Café des Deux Moulins in Paris turns on October 1999, when director Jean-Pierre Jeunet walked into this Montmartre bistro hunting locations for a film about a dreamy waitress, and owner Claude Labbé turned him away at first. It follows the terms Jeunet offered to win him over, the shoot itself, and what happened to this quiet corner of Rue Lepic once the film became a worldwide hit two years later. Best heard at a table by the window, before the lunch crowd arrives.