On January 20, as part of the Aventure d'un Long Métrage (ALM) program, we welcomed Nicolas DE BOISCUILLÉ, head set designer for the film "De Gaulle".
Nicolas DE BOISCUILLÉ has been exploring, imagining and creating film sets for over 20 years. He has worked on numerous films, including "Le Sens de la Fête"," Une intime conviction" and "Five", as well as on the "family business" series. "family business" series.
He looks back on 6 months of intense work on the film " De Gaulle". It all began with discovering the script and meeting the director and producer. He carried out extensive research in libraries and historical sites in Paris to find existing sets that would work with the film's era. The aim was to gather as much information, images and atmosphere as possible to create the right atmosphere. For the production of " De Gaulle", somescenes required studio set construction, while for others, a sense of chaos was needed, and working the ground outdoors was of prime importance in creating the set.
L'Aventure d'un Long Métrage is a series of Masterclasses organized around a film, in which students from the DHEC - Département des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques - Screenwriting/Directing and Production/Distribution departments interview the main actors and post-production supervisors.
Directed by Gabriel LE BOMIN, with Lambert WILSON and Isabelle CARRÉ, the biopic will be released in cinemas on March 4, 2020.
Synopsis:
May 1940. The war intensifies, the French army collapses, and the Germans will soon be in Paris. Panic grips the government, which contemplates accepting defeat. One man, Charles de Gaulle, newly promoted to general, wants to change the course of history. His wife, Yvonne de Gaulle, was his first supporter, but events soon tore them apart. Yvonne and her children set off on the roads of exodus. Charles went to London. He wanted to make another voice heard: that of the Resistance.
