Monday November 4, France 2 broadcasts Alone (our opinion), a TV movie with Samuel And Bihan recounting the exploit of navigator Yves Parlier during the 2000-2001 Vendée Globe. Produced in very special conditions in the middle of the Atlantic, this fiction, for which the actor lost 10 kilos during filming, looks back on the solo round-the-world race, non-stop and without assistance, during which the skipper, also engineer, saw his mast break into three pieces on December 17, 2000 in the southern seas.
Alone : The TV film with Samuel Le Bihan shot by the same director asAlex Hugo
Against everyone’s advice, the sailor refuses to give up, undertakes to repair this serious damage himself and resumes the race. After 126 days, 23 hours and 16 minutes, he finally arrived in Les Sables-d’Olonne, taking thirteenth place through courage and will, aboard his monohull Aquitaine Innovations. This 60-foot racing sailboat – a little over 18 meters – from the IMOCA class, vessels specially designed for ocean races around the world, could not be used for filming. After having had several owners over the last twenty years, it was no longer in good condition. However, it is on a boat of the same category, customized to resemble its model, that the team of Alone took to the sea to put together the TV film, in front of the cameras of Pierre Isoard, Samuel Le Bihan’s accomplice on the series Alex Hugo on France 2.
Alone : The TV film with Samuel Le Bihan shot on a sailboat competing in the next Vendée Globe
Thus, a reduced team of eleven people boarded the monohull of Belgian sailor Denis Van Weynbergh, hired as skipper for the occasion, who will be found on this same boat on the starting line of the next Vendée Globe , on November 10. Questioned by our colleagues from The futurehe seemed rather convinced by the sea legs of the Samuel Le Bihan: “He is very nicehe confided. He sails a bit so was very interested and asked me a lot of questions. When he had the opportunity, he steered the boat and participated in the maneuvers.” As for the one who slipped into the skin of Yves Parlier for the duration of a fiction, he is not ready to forget this adventure, if we judge by his comments in the columns of Télé-Loisirs : “During filming, I saw incredible thingshe remembers. Like the cameraman, filming at sea level, with the thing holding him so he doesn’t fall, while trying to take stock in the middle of a storm! Nobody gave up, we lived this adventure as one man!”
