Marcel Pagnol was a French writer, producer and director, born in 1895 and died in 1974.
Marcel Pagnol was a French writer, producer and director, born in 1895 and died in 1974.
After graduating in philosophy and studying literature, Marcel Pagnol was appointed teacher at Condorcet high school in Paris in 1922.
He published his first plays three years later. He took a leave of absence from national education and continued writing plays such as Topaze, then Marius. The latter was made into a film in 1931.
Then came the shooting of Fanny and César, also from the theatre.
Marcel Pagnol then decided to direct feature films himself, including Jofroi, Angèle, Merlusse, Cigalon, La femme du boulanger and Regain.
After World War II, he was elected to the Académie française and filmed Manon des sources and Les lettres de mon moulin.
In 1957, he wrote his Souvenirs d’enfance (Childhood Memories), which includes La gloire de mon père (The Glory of My Father), Le château de ma mère (My Mother’s Castle) and Le temps des secrets (Time of Secrets).
Fanspots Stories ParisFanspots are legendary images from films, series, music, comics or novels.
These are often anonymous places these are that have become world-famous thanks to pop culture, to the point where they are now inseparable from the works they were used to set.
Amélie, James Bond, Mission Impossible, La Grande Vadrouille, Les Tontons flingueurs, Bref, Call my Agent, Sex & The City, Blake & Mortimer, Spider-Man, Notre-Dame de Paris… Discover the history of the cult locations of the greatest pop culture masterpieces in the City of Light!
Paris filmed, Paris sung, Paris drawn, Paris told… For artists, the City of Light is an extraordinary field of expression and an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Each new work is an outstretched hand to seduce new people, thanks to the dreamers of yesterday and today. Famous or anonymous places then become cult. These are the secrets of a hundred of them revealed in this third volume of the Fanspots Stories collection.
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The coffee ofAmélie, the location of the Corniaud, the bridge of Inception, the seat of the Spectre in James Bond, the restaurant of Ratatouille, the church of Les Tontons Flingueurs, the bar of Bref., the agency in Call my Agent, the restaurant in Emily in Paris, the refuge of Lupin, the Parisian residence of the heroines of Gossip Girl, the firm of In therapy, the works of the Louvre featured in the clip Apeshit by Jay Z & Beyoncé, the Parc Montsouris of Jacques Higelin, the metro station of Poinçonneur des Lilas by Serge Gainsbourg, the café in Paris Le Flore by Etienne Daho, the apartment ofAdèle Blanc-Sec, the lair of Olrik in Blake & Mortimer, the apartment of Arsene Lupin, the home of the Count of Monte Cristo, the address of The Malaussian Family, the police station of Maigret, the Fiat Lux agency of Nestor Burma, the bar of A Moveable Feast, the tavern of Three musketeers…
