Le FIGARO.- Why did you choose Angoulême, renamed Ennui-sur-Blasé, as the setting for
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?
Wes ANDERSON.-
We did a sort of tour de France and after ten minutes spent in Angoulême, I felt that it was the right city.
I was looking for something that looks like the Ménilmontant of the 1950s. I wanted to recreate the Paris that I know from old films.
It was easier to make Angoulême resemble the Paris of yesteryear than to transform the Paris of today where there are no longer deserted streets.
Most of the time, we built decorative elements in the workshops to take them to the streets and change the facade of a building.
Dog Island
, your previous feature film, was a tribute to Japanese cinema.
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pays tribute to French cinema.
J'adore
Boudu sauvé des eaux
, by Renoir.
I spoke to Benicio Del Toro to play Moses Rosenthaler, the psychopathic criminal painter.
He seemed to know Michel
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