On the occasion of the first free-to-air broadcast of the film called The Whirlwind of Life on Sunday December 15, 2024, from 9:05 p.m. on France 2, Télé Star reveals to you in which locations this feature film was filmed.
Released in cinemas in 2022, the film called The whirlwind of life, directed by Olivier Treinerwill be broadcast for the first time unencrypted on French television on Sunday December 15, 2024, from 9:05 p.m. on France 2. Carried by Lou de Laagence, Grégory Gadebois, Isabelle Carré, Raphaël Personnaz, Esther Garrel, Aliocha Schneider and Denis Podalydès. This feature film features the character of Julia, played on screen by Lou de Laagence.
Daughter of a piano maker, Julia is a very gifted pianist herself. The November 10, 1989she is 17 years old and is in Amsterdam to perfect her musical training. When she learns with her comrades of the fall of the Berlin Wall. She, who has always been very wise, decides to run away with her friends to go to Berlin. It is at this moment that chance will change his destiny for the first time.
The whirlwind of life : no less than 87 different filming locations
Olivier Treiner is passionate about the theme of chance. The director met Camille, his wife, when he was a student, in a café. Where they both loved coming to work. He was sitting at his favorite table, which also happened to be his. “I offered to share it, she sat down. We spent the day talking, and we never left each other's side“he first revealed.
“A few weeks later. I mentioned this meeting to my brother. Then I asked him about his love life. And he told me that he had also met a young girl. In a place and circumstances completely different. And that they were dating after a few minutes of discussion. We realized they were sisters“then clarified the filmmaker.
“Around the same time. Our two lovers were having a similar discussion. And noted that they had by chance met two brothers. It was almost 20 years ago. Somehow, that's where the film was born. I still live with the young woman from the café. We have three children, and we wrote The Whirlwind of Life together, injecting our emotions into it. Our pains and our hopes”finally concluded Olivier Treiner.
Olivier Treiner: “All the exteriors were filmed in Paris”
For the record, The whirlwind of life required 87 different filming locations! Three locations have been completely created. The father's workshop and the living part of this house. As well as the Berlin loft. But for the rest, Olivier Treiner and his team shot a lot on natural settings.
“As we were in full confinement, it was excluded to go to Amsterdam, Berlin or Tokyo but we recreated the Berlin loft in Saint-Denis and the Amsterdam loft, at the University campus in the Netherlands pavilion. And all the exteriors were filmed in Paris.”explained the filmmaker in particular.
