Cinema: why Emilie Dequenne and Max Boublil shot in Toulouse
The shooting of Claire Vassé’s first film, “Double foyer” with Émilie Dequenne and Max Boublil, has just ended in town. The feature film team was the third hosted this year in Toulouse.
The end clap retained this week on the last filming location of “Double foyer” the first feature film by the novelist Claire Vassé (1). The rue des Potiers, its school, its automobile repair garage, the Monplaisir garden, the rue de Metz, the garden of Saint-Étienne cathedral, the Terre Cabade cemetery and also Clermont-Lefort, among others, served as the backdrop for this low-budget production. Its director is delighted to have opted for the Pink City for her first experience behind the camera: “When I wrote this story, as I live and have Paris in front of me, I was afraid of the ‘story of people who live in large Parisian apartments, of the relationship to money too, so I went in search of a singular city with something, and I don’t want it to be badly perceived, but to affordable, first degree, simple. That’s what makes me feel at home here. With sincerity and conviction, the filmmaker also confides her surprise: “There was both the singularity and the beauty, the welcome too, which meant that I was very surprised to realize that Toulouse was very little filmed while it is a solar city. »
The company, made possible thanks to the action of the filming offices of the Attractiveness Agency of the City of Toulouse and the Occitanie Region, was established here for 25 days and employed around forty people.
The Pink City from every angle
“There are a lot of indoor scenes chasing the director, but when I arrived I realized that we had to show the city. Especially since the relationship to space that serves as a red thread in the film also applies to space in the broad sense, so it is for this reason that we feel the life of this district where the garage is deployed. of the main character played by Max Boublil rue des Potiers. Lili, played by Émilie Dequenne, lives on rue de Metz and the terrace of her apartment overlooks Saint-Étienne Cathedral. » The city will appear on the screen from every angle since last weekend, the team was creating a stock of images, « of stolen shots of this mixture of beautiful old facades which suddenly become modern. It is this eclecticism that pleases me a lot,” concluded Claire Vassé.