where was this social comedy with Audrey Lamy and Cécile de France filmed?

At the start of the year, why not get into…rebellious mode? Even Disney got into it, with its homonymous heroine who is part of the girl power of the big-eared firm. This Sunday, January 12, 2025, all the rebels of France will meet France 2 with the comedy Rebelsbroadcast at 9:10 p.m.. An inflated and hilarious production, whose origin is astonishing to say the least.

Where was the film shot? Rebelswith Cécile de France, Audrey Lamy and Yolande Moreau?

Released in theaters in March 2019, Rebels follows Sandra, Nadine and Marylin, assembly line workers in a cannery in Boulogne-sur-Mer, who accidentally kill their boss, thereby discovering a bag full of banknotes in the latter’s locker. The trio decide to keep the money, but quickly learn that criminals are looking for the money. From the first notes of the credits of this trendy social western UFO, the tone is clear: we are with Tarantino, a cult filmmaker who was inspired by a famous French director, sometimes Leone, and especially with the Coen brothers (we think a lot has Fargoavailable in series, with its magnificent losers). Cécile de France, impressive bimbo on the comeback, Audrey Lamy, totally unleashed, and Yolande Moreau, hilarious as a gunslinging granny, form the explosive and very endearing trio of this little bombshell made in (Hauts de) France. This delirious adventure multiplies the brutal beatings, gunshots and other fights, delivered with crazy energy. The whole thing is astonishing, hilarious, euphoric. This favorite film was filmed on the scene of the action, in Boulogne-sur-Mer. “Allan (Mauduit, the director, editor’s note) has made Boulogne-sur-Mer a real cinema setting, without falling into sadness or pathos“, explained Cécile de France in the press kit for the film. “We filmed in March, it was very cold, sometimes it snowed and we had to dig the earth, “go there” like our characters do. It was quite a physical shoot and I loved it! The North reminded me of Belgium and the proletarian environment in which I grew up.“

Allan Mauduit explains the choice of Boulogne-sur-Mer, “largest French fishing port“

Previously director of Fierce Naughty (2007) with Marilou Berry and the first season of the series Kaboul Kitchen which stopped after three seasons, Allan Mauduit did not see himself putting his cameras anywhere other than in the northern port city as he recounts in the press kit for Rebels. “I hesitated for a long time about the setting because we too often overuse the image of a poor North, with its settlements and closed factories. But there are few canneries in France: Boulogne-sur-Mer is the largest French fishing port. This city does not inspire sadness in me: it is a wonderful setting, open to the sea, conducive to thrillers.” Nord power !