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Location of the shooting
“However, this turn of events had forcefully rattled the cages of the denizens of the criminal underworld.”
Roebuck Wright (Jeffrey Wright)
The ultimate story of The French Dispatch was shot on film, in black and white. Mostly filmed in a studio, in a former felt factory located in Gond-Pontrouve, it also required the construction of some streets. It is thus at the level of 5 rue du Minage that the shooting between the forces of order and the thugs responsible for the kidnapping of the commissioner’s son is shot.
The story of the kidnapping, the last one in The French Dispatch, is one of the most experimental in the film. Shot partly in black and white, it also includes an entire animated episode. The scene in question, as hectic as it is visually spectacular, features a car chase through the city streets. A way for Wes Anderson to pay tribute to Angoulême and its importance in the history of comics.
Wes Anderson calls on Gwenn Germain, already in charge of the animation on Isle of Dogs. Largely inspired by Tintin and Blake and Mortimer, it was entrusted to the French studio Werlen Meyer. The latter having been created in 2018 by the same Gwenn Germain. However, if Werlen Meyer did supervise the animated sequence, it was produced at Studio 3.0 in Angoulême. It took two months of pre-production, five months of production and the work of about fifteen people to complete it. This is further proof of Wes Anderson’s and his collaborators’ desire to use regional talent as much as possible.
This is the second time that the French actor Mathieu Amalric turns under the direction of Wes Anderson after The Grand Budapest Hotel.
5 Rue du Minage
Rue du Minage connects Saint-Pierre d’Angoulême Cathedral and Place du Minage.
Rue du Minage begins with a charming square with a fountain. A particularly peaceful place where it is good to stroll when the weather is fine. Due to its proximity to the cathedral, it remains very popular with locals and tourists. It consists mainly of dwellings but also includes an artists’ studio.
The Fantrippers Buying Board
Intégrale Ric Hochet - Tome 16
Publisher’s summary: Has our favorite detective finally found a worthy adversary? Sinister is a super-criminal who knows the Hochet family a little too well. After having made Richard, the father, disappear, he attacks Ric, whom he drags with him into the limbo of the beyond. But the corpses do not resurface one album later to attack the art market… As a bonus, our hero will have to defend the FIBD of Angoulême against a mysterious killer! So many tangled mysteries, which have made the success of “Ric Hochet” for so many years…
This book consists of the following titles:
- «La Main de la Mort»
- «Crime sur Internet»
- «Le Jeu de la Potence»
- «BD Meurtres»
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By Gilles Rolland
Passionné de cinéma, de rock and roll, de séries TV et de littérature. Rédacteur de presse et auteur des livres Le Heavy Metal au cinéma, Paroles de fans Guns N' Roses, Paroles de fans Rammstein et Welcome to my Jungle : 100 albums rock et autres anecdotes dépareillées. Adore également voyager à la recherche des lieux les plus emblématiques de la pop culture.