Halfway between a cinema book and a travel guide, Guillaume Evin's Sur la route du cinéma (On the Road to Cinema) covers nearly 400 pages of film locations and natural settings from several hundred films. The longest of all cinephile road trips.
Planning a trip to Havana? Visit the filming locations of Laurent Cantet's Retour à Ithaque or Olivier Assayas' Cuban Network. A weekend in Montreal?
Why not sit on the bench in La Fontaine Park where Jeremy Irons and Bradley Cooper sat in The Words (which, in this 2012 film, featured New York's Central Park)? And by the way, admire the airport as you get off the plane, as seen in Steven Spielberg 's The Terminal (and not JFK Airport as depicted in the film).
But if New York or Paris is your destination, you're spoilt for choice: every neighborhood has its own scene or film.
Conceived as a richly illustrated travel book, Sur la route du cinéma takes us on a journey across four continents, exploring over 500 films and as many locations in short notes or longer texts.
We'll discover five different ways of filming Rio de Janeiro's Sugarloaf, from Moonraker to Retour du Grand Blond. Take a stroll down Mexico City's Calle Tepeji, guided by Alfonso Cuaron's Roma, and you might recognize the small houses in the Turkish port of Inebolu on the Black Sea as the setting for Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang.
When cinema makes you want to travel, and travel makes you want to go to the movies.
SUR LA ROUTE DU CINÉMA BY GUILLAUME EVIN ÉDITIONS DU CHÊNE, 2023 - €45
