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Restaurant Le Sans Blague
“In the Flop Quarter, students. Hungry, restless, reckless.”
Herbsaint Sazerac (Owen Wilson)
Angoulême and its sometimes tortuous streets, evolving on several levels, constitute a formidable playground for the director Wes Anderson. When he settles there with his team, the Texas filmmaker remodels several places, even if it is only for a furtive appearance on the screen. This is how the corner of Laferrière Street became a restaurant, Le Sans Blague. Used to building ephemeral sets, Wes Anderson’s collaborators imagined an establishment in the purest Parisian style, with a yellow front. They install a false front and two awnings, also yellow.
In an extreme attention to detail, Wes Anderson had a hot air balloon drawn above the entrance to his fake restaurant before making his plan from the upper part of Laferrière Street, accessible by a charming staircase located right in front of the restaurant. This sequence does not feature any famous actors. However, it is told by Owen Wilson, one of Wes Anderson’s most loyal actors. The French Dispatch is the seventh film of the director in which the actor appears. An experience he came back to on the occasion of the presentation of The French Dispatch in competition at the Cannes Film Festival: “It seems incredible when you think that it’s been almost thirty years since Bottle Rocket. You hear yourself saying… things your parents used to say. You wouldn’t think it was that long ago. To think that we were roommates in Austin, at the University of Texas. We met while writing the script. It seems crazy that now we are invited together to the Cannes Film Festival.“
The French Dispatch marks the fifth collaboration between Wes Anderson and composer Alexandre Desplat.
2 Rue Laferrière
Rue Laferrière is one of the most unusual in Angoulême. One of the prettiest too. It is in this the joy of tourists.
Rue Laferrière begins at the corner of rue de l’Arsenal. It then meanders to join rue de Montmoreau further south. It has a small picturesque staircase in the form of a shortcut and consists mainly of dwellings. It is often used by people wishing to go to the promontory of the Charente departmental council and allows you to quickly reach the square Saint-Gelais.
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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.