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City Hall
“The English are coming! We passed them on the road! We’re liberated!”
Marie (Sandrine Bonnaire)
Blanche et Marie may be set in the north of France, but director Jacques Renard is based in the Angoulême region of Charente. The hairdresser’s salon run by Germinal, played by Patrick Chesnais, accompanied by his daughter Marie (Sandrine Bonnaire) is located on rue Gambetta, opposite the Matha town hall.
It is therefore logical that the filmmaker organized the conclusion of his film in front of this same town hall, when the British and the Americans finally liberate the city, in a necessarily festive atmosphere. The inhabitants of Matha literally went back in time during the shooting of Blanche et Marie. Numerous decorations, such as British and American flags, were hung in the streets while the production parked period vehicles in its arteries.
Filmed in 1984, Blanche et Marie tells an important part of French history. A large-scale production that transformed a small village in the Charente into a northern city. The period re-enactment was a real event for the locals. Some of them also participated in the shooting as extras.
Blanche et Marie marks the first collaboration of Miou-Miou and Sandrine Bonnaire.
Commune de Matha
Several times renovated, the town hall of Matha is a historical monument. It is located on a small square in the center of the village.
Having played a role during the Hundred Years’ War, Matha has now regained its tranquility and offers a quality of life to which many townspeople turn. Although it is not listed as a historical monument, unlike the châtelet, the church of Saint-Hérie or the church of Saint-Pierre de Marestay, the town hall also tells a story linked to that of the region.
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