This Wednesday, December 11, 2024, Cécile de France will meet you on her boat in The Passengerbroadcast on Arte. But where was this sensual and successful first film filmed?
It's not just in Hollywood that cameras can work at full capacity. France also hosts numerous filming events, such as that of the series Cat’s Eyessome scenes of which were filmed in the prestigious setting of the Louvre. Our country has very beautiful landscapes, regularly taken advantage of by directors. So Audrey Dana left for Vercor to film her Men on the verge of a nervous breakdownan endearing comedy with a five-star cast, while the mountain hosted the shooting of the latest version dated Belle and Sebastian. Less imposing height for The Passenger, intense love story broadcast this Wednesday, December 11 at 8:55 p.m. on Arte.
Where was the film filmed? The Passenger with Cécile de France?
Led by a Cécile de France far from her period film costumes Mademoiselle de Joncquières, The Passenger follows Chiara, who has lived for a long time with her husband Antoine, whose job as a fisherman she adopted. One day the couple decides to take on Maxence, a young man from a wealthy family, as an apprentice. A little clumsy and uncomfortable at first, Maxence quickly gets used to sea trips and gets along even more quickly with Chiara and Antoine. But, Chiara senses, Maxence does not only feel friendship for her… This touching and sensual first film was released in theaters in December 2022. With Félix Lefebvre in the role of the young lover, the revelation ofSummer 85 by François Ozon. The feature film was shot in Vendée, and more particularly in the town of Noirmoutier, a famous island which attracts thousands of tourists every summer season.
Noirmoutier, a filming location
It is no coincidence that the director Héloïse Pelloquet, who signs with The Passenger his first feature, chose Noirmoutier, specialized in salt cultivation. She knows the locations well, and also set her two short films there. “I now live in Paris, but don't feel like a city dweller and I prefer to film places with which I have an intimate relationship“, she explains in the press kit for her film. “The name of the island is never mentioned, it is a place of fiction.“Not content with being a filming location, the island also hosted the Tour de France in 2018.
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