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Post by Breeze on Apr 23, 2012 22:46:37 GMT
What are some of these movies that have authentic French villages or towns in them? If I can't have a good plot or acting in a movie, I'll settle for stones.
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Post by frenchmystiquetour on Apr 28, 2012 20:08:16 GMT
kimby - Actually the town that I live in, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, was the setting for parts of the famous Jacques Tati film Mon Oncle. auntieannie - That's funny you say that. I was spending time with the Mrs. in this area the last few days and she was telling me how she used to hate that fable because she had a bookbag as a child with the first few lines from that fable written on it and everyone behind her used to start singing the rhyme to her. Breeze - I'm not familiar enough with French movies so perhaps kerouac can fill you in. Although as he says, you'd have a hard time telling one village from another because they all look the same.
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Post by Mathieu on May 1, 2012 1:21:29 GMT
breeze : I cannot remember whether they were set in specific villages, but I know four films - all connected to the novelist and film maker Marcel Pagnol - that were set in the French countryside (and as far as I recall, filmed entirely all over France e.g. Bouches-du-Rhone, Vaucluse, etc.) that are utterly charming and which made a big impression on me when I was just starting to be bitten by the travel bug post-graduation in the mid-80's. You might know of or have seen some or all of them : "Jean de Florette", "Manon des Sources", "La Gloire de mon Pere" and "La Maison de ma Mere". The first two tell a quaint and interesting story of feuding villagers, greed and revenge involving a natural water source (parts one and two) and are based on Pagnol's novels. The last two were directed by him and are autobiographical, set in the seemingly halcyon days of his childhood and the sweet relationship between himself, his parents, his brother and his relatives (also parts one and two). I remember thinking how beautiful his young mother was ! Well, the actress portraying her, anyway The scenery in all of them is really beautiful. They're definitely worth a shot if you can still find them. All were made in the early to mid-80s.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2012 14:40:01 GMT
Well, in northern France, quite a bit of Séraphine was filmed in Senlis where the story took place. And most of the films by Bruno Dumont are filmed in villages of the Nord-Pas de Calais region.
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