Student accommodation: Amélie’s nightmare | M6 | 66 minutes

Amélie is 19 and studying cinema. Like nearly a million young French every year when the universities go back she sets out to find a small flat. However, in Paris, as in all the major cities, the hunt is not easy. What with flats taken minutes after being advertised, long lines waiting for ever on the stairs, the mass of documents to be photocopied in order to prove one is solvent and cramped studios, you need to be patient and tenacious. And you need to know the tricks.