On December 28, 2022, Héloïse Palloquet landed in the dark rooms of France with a very personal film, The passenger. Carried by Cécile de France, Félix Lefebvre and Grégoire Monsaingeon, he wants to be a feature film close to reality, in which several destinies collide. All, through natural sets that are worth a look … A question arises, but where was this film?
The passenger : a sweatshirt on the waters of the Atlantic
The passenger takes us into the daily life of Chiara. Speaker in love with Antoine, she followed her on the island of her childhood, on the Atlantic coast. This is where the couple has lived from fishing for twenty years, without any shadow on the board. However, one day, the arrival of a young man will rebut the cards of their lives. It is Maxence, an apprentice, who will weaken their relationship. Chiara, particularly turned upside down, will see her deepest certainties being called into question, between desire and passion.
The passenger : a set of filming dear to the director
To report on this romance on the water, Héloïse Palloquet did not do things by halves. To be struggling with reality, she bet on glaring scenes of truth, for intimate sequences, as for those of everyday life. Thus, the three main actors in the film trained in fishing, when several other amateur actors joined them. Jean-Pierre Couton, Josée Lambert and Ghislaine Girard, inhabitants of Noirmoutier, location of The passenger ! A corner of Vendée dear to the director, as we have read in the film's press kit: “I now live in Paris, but do not feel city and I prefer to film places with which I have an intimate relationship. The name of the island is never cited, it is a fictional place. 'Is not Noonmoutier, it is a smaller, more isolated island, to which we access by boat while Noirmoutier is connected to the continent by a bridge. A story in realism, to mix the romantic with naturalism.
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