In the footsteps of Wes Anderson

After selecting several French cities, for the shooting of his next opus, the choice of Angoulême was officially confirmed at the end of August 2018.

Wes Anderson finds in Angoulême the topography that he looks for: winding streets, staircases, bridges, grand mansions, to evoke a Paris that is no more, seen in the film The Red BalIoon by Albert Lamorisse (1950). He began to make scouting whith his team in September. On the 27th of this month, the local press Charente Libre publishes an article mentioning the presence of the director. On the picture we can see him surrounded by his team, place du Minage.

Very quickly, the rumor of a musical circulated in the city and in the press. It was only on November 23rd 2018, at the launch of the Christmas

lights in the city of Angoulême, that Wes Anderson reveals the subject of his film "a love letter to journalists" with three distinct stories in three differents time periods. Accompanied that evening by Tilda Swinton, Wes Anderson declares: "Angoulême, my new favorite city in France".

Angoulême renamed in the film Ennui-sur-Blasé, a name that "sounds funny" to English speakers according to Wes Anderson. Peoples living in Angoulême, called Angoumoisins became key contributors, forty percent of the film’s crew were based in town, and some 900 citizens worked as paid extras.

Thank you to Pascal Lefort & Odette Fouché for their pictures.