It is a blockbuster partly filmed here which hits the big screen this Friday, June 28, 2024. “The Count of Monte Cristo”, with Pierre Niney in the title role, is already expected to be the phenomenon of the summer.
Directed by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre De La Patellière, some of the scenes were produced in October 2023 in Céret, at the Château d’Aubiry (Eastern Pyrenees).
International visibility
For Mélanie Depra, the co-owner and operations manager of the Château d’Aubiry, this week-long filming represents real added value. It’s here first time the castle is used as a film set : “this allows us to highlight the castle throughout the world and bring it to life without damaging it.”
A shoot that was not, however, easy. It was necessary more than a month of preparation to welcome the film crews, but Mélanie Depra has excellent memories of it.
“It was very interesting! The teams have incredible logistics to stage everything and clean everything after their visit without damaging anything in this exceptional place”, she says. The co-owner of the place is now impatient to see the final result: “I can’t wait to find out because Pierre Niney really embodied Edmond Dantès wonderfully.we saw him during the day, he was really in character. For me it’s the film of his career.”
She is also waiting to see the images made of the castle and she is on the lookout for everything. “In the last trailer, there is a beautiful scene where we can clearly see the Château d’Aubiry, the hall with the fresco for those in the know…” she rejoices.
Indeed, the castle appears in several sequences like the home of Edmond Dantès, the mysterious and vengeful count from the famous novel written by Alexandre Dumas. All that remains is for moviegoers to spot the passages in the 2h58 of the film, perhaps on the occasion of the Fête du cinéma from June 30 to July 3, when a ticket costs five euros in all participating cinemas.
