Yesterday at 5:00 p.m. – by Thomas Fourcroy
On Monday, November 4 at 9 p.m., France 2 broadcasts Alone. A TV film in troubled waters, shot in conditions more real than life.
Ready to set sail? This is what director Pierre Isoard will offer you this evening. With Aloneit recounts the Vendée Globe of Yves Parlier, an outstanding navigator who overcame the elements and the galleys in a race like no other. See you in 2000, when the skipper, after taking control of the famous race, saw the mast of his boat break in three. In the middle of the Indian Ocean, he will, alone, try everything to repair it and thus finish this race alone… An adventure recounted by the sailor in the book Robinson of the seasadapted here with Samuel Le Bihan. Sticking very closely to reality, where was this new TV film filmed?
Alone : Where was the TV film with Samuel Le Bihan filmed?
To step into the shoes of Yves Parlier, Samuel Le Bihan stopped at nothing. Thus, he lost weight during filming, to the point of losing ten kilos, and also isolated himself from his comrades, to feel the solitude of the navigator. Having already sailed, his profile seemed perfect, for a TV movie filmed obviously, in Sables-d’Olonne, the departure town for the famous Vendée Globe. Patrick André, producer of Alonerevealed it in the columns of Sands Vendée Journal : “It was important. Les Sables-d’Olonne is the symbol of the race. It’s where everything was born.” Thus, the Atlantes convention center hosted a press conference, when two homes in downtown Les Sables became those of Yves Parlier. Note also that the port captaincy of Jard-sur-Mer has become the Vendée Globe race headquarters. Finally, Lorient will have housed certain scenes at sea and other sequences requiring special effects.
Alone : The TV movie boat at the start of the 2024 Vendée Globe!
As for the ship on the screen, note that it is a real racing boat! This is that of Belgian skipper Denis Van Weynbergh, who will start the Vendée Globe 2024 on November 10. A “60 feet”a specific choice as Patrick André shared: “We needed a boat that was not too new and in good condition. We might as well tell you that we can count them on the fingers of one hand… And then, chance worked out well since the co-producer is Belgian and, above all, she is a childhood friend of Denis Van Weynbergh!”
