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Movie Those Happy Days (2006)
A tirade of insults played by Josephine de Meaux remains as one of the funniest scenes in French comedies. A sequence filmed at the swimming pool of Marthon in Charente.
Piscine de Montbron
Piscine de Montbron - Crédit photo : Communauté de Communes La Rochefoucauld Porte du Périgord

“Listen Benoit: swimming pools are for children. Normally, you should like going to the pool. You know what I mean. But you know what you are? You are the king of the assholes in the land of the assholes. A little asshole, ball breaker who takes the lead, okay? You’re a little motherfucker, a piece of shit, crying your ass off all day long. That’s what you are! You asshole! You asshole! You fucking asshole! Get the fuck out! You motherfucker! You little fucker!”

Caroline (Joséphine de Meaux) and Benoît Pichavent (Martin Jobert)

The children and their leaders head to the pool for a fun day of sun, fun and water fights.

Among the children, only one does not want to go into the water, it is Benoît. This little boy is depressed and his father, Pierre-Emmanuel Pichavent (Jean-Michel Lahmi), a child psychiatrist, can’t really communicate with him. Worse, he spies on her at the summer camp.

Caroline (Joséphine de Meaux), a soft-spoken and shy hostess, tries to make him change his mind and dive into the water. But when he refuses, she gets angry, declaiming one of the funniest lines of the film, even of the history of French comedies. If it has often stuck to her skin, her role of villain develops in Vilaine, a film with Omar Sy and Marilou Berry – present in Nos jours heureux – directed by Jean-Patrick Benes and Allan Mauduit.

If the characters in the summer camp take the bus to get to the pool, suggesting that it is far away, the film crews didn’t have to travel many miles to find one. It is located in the town of Montbron, next to the chateau de la Couronne where the scenes of the vacation center were shot.

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Josephine de Meaux won the Best Actress Award at the 2006 Alpe d’Huez International Comedy Film Festival for her role as Caroline in the film.

Nos jours heureux by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano (Quad Productions)
Nos jours heureux by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano (Quad Productions)
Nos jours heureux by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano (Quad Productions)
Nos jours heureux by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano (Quad Productions)

Piscine de Montbron

La piscine de Montbron is a municipal complex located in this commune of the Charente.

Not far from La Rochefoucauld and a few steps from the François Mitterrand college, this municipal swimming pool welcomes swimmers from June to the beginning of September.

It is an open-air facility with a large swimming pool with several water lines and a smaller pool.

Activities related to water are offered: swimming lessons, aquatraining lessons, aquagym, aquazumba sessions and water garden sessions for children from 4 years old.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

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