Halfway between a film book and a travel guide, Guillaume Evin's *On the Road to Cinema* brings together, in nearly 400 pages, the filming locations and natural settings of several hundred films. The longest of cinephile road trips awaits.
Planning a trip to Havana? A chance to visit the filming locations of Laurent Cantet's *Return to Ithaca* or Olivier Assayas's *Cuban Network*. A weekend in Montreal?
Why not sit on the bench in La Fontaine Park where they had settled Jeremy Irons et Bradley Cooper in The Words (which, in this 2012 film, featured Central Park in New York)? And by the way, admiring the airport upon exiting the plane, isn't that the one we see in The Terminal? Steven Spielberg (and not JFK Airport as the fiction depicts).
If however New York or Paris are your destinations, you are spoiled for choice: each district has its own scene or film.
Conceived as a richly illustrated travel book, On the Road to Cinema takes us on a journey across four continents, exploring more than 500 films and as many places through short notes or longer texts.
We will discover five different ways of filming Rio de Janeiro's Sugarloaf Mountain, from Moonraker to The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe. We will stroll down Mexico City's Calle Tepeji guided by Alfonso Cuarón's Roma, and perhaps recognize, in the small houses of the Turkish port of Inebolu on the Black Sea, the setting of Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang.
When cinema inspires a desire to travel, and travel inspires a desire to see more cinema.
ON THE ROAD TO CINEMA BY GUILLAUME EVIN, ÉDITIONS DU CHÊNE, 2023 – €45
