Known for its shows and historical reconstructions where knights and gladiators shine, the Puy-du-Fou amusement park ventures into the 20th century with its new creation which opens the 2023 season From today, visitors of the estate will be able to immerse themselves in the wonder of La Belle Epoque with
Le Mime and l'Etoile
.
The story, imagined by Nicolas de Villiers son of Philippe de Villiers and current president of Puy-du-Fou, is a tribute to the beginning of cinema.
Romantic,
Le Mime et l'Etoile follows
the quest of a director in France in 1914 who had not yet experienced war.
Gerard Bideau wants to offer silent and black and white cinema color and sound.
A miracle, believes the director, that only love can grant.
They must therefore find performers in front of his camera who will be pierced and transcended by Cupid's arrow.
The actress is all found.
This is Garance.
His partner is more unexpected.
The mime Mimoza is a dreamy young Gypsy.
This wanderer carries his art from village to village.
Bideau encourages his two stars to get to know each other.
But the shooting is not going to happen at all as hoped.
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Nicolas de Villiers presents Mimoza as the heir of a Chaplin, a Méliès and a Buster Keaton.
So that his illusions and sleight of hand enchant the public, like Garance, Le Puy-du-Fou has seen big.
Twenty million euros of budget and investment to build this 30-meter stage where an invisible treadmill has been placed to render the effects of traveling.
The theater hall was made to measure and can accommodate 2000 spectators.
Some 120 characters are gathered on stage and evolve in costumes and decorations of Parisian facades in different shades of gray.
The make-up, the color of the hair or even of the hands, everything is ashen to correspond absolutely to what the collective imagination retains of black and white.
