Paris and environs in Holy Motors
This is a near-complete identification of the locations for Carax's 2012 film. (If anyone recognises one of the two places still unidentified - a street and a roundabout - please let me know, here.)
For insightful comment on and analysis of the film, see the 'Hail Holy Motors' in issue 3 of the journal Lola: here
Click here for an interactive Google Map of the locations. Below is an indication of their spread:
For insightful comment on and analysis of the film, see the 'Hail Holy Motors' in issue 3 of the journal Lola: here
Click here for an interactive Google Map of the locations. Below is an indication of their spread:
La Villa Paul Poiret, built by Robert Mallet-Stevens in 1925, at Mézy-sur-Seine (78). 32 rue d'Apremont:
The approach to Paris via the autoroute de l'Ouest, at Saint Cloud:
The pont Alexandre III:
Turning into the avenue Pierre Mendès-France, with a view of the viaduc d'Austerlitz:
The gare d'Austerlitz from the avenue Pierre Mendès-France:
This rooftop car park is at 14 rue Jules Vanzuppe, Ivry-sur-Seine:
I had confused this location with La Syctom, a waste disposal plant (thanked in the film's credits), and am very grateful to Didier Abot, Unit Production Manager on the film, who has corrected this misidentification. La Syctom is two blocks away, its chimneys visible centre-frame. Didier has very kindly sent me scouting pictures for this and other locations.
This is La Syctom:
Place de la Nation, 12e:
Boulevard Voltaire, 11e, heading towards the place Léon Blum:
Panorama over the boulevard de Ménilmontant, 20e, with view of Notre Dame du Perpétuel Secours and the Père Lachaise cemetery:
This, from a deleted scene, is the passage Montbrun, 14e:
Here is Didier Abot's scouting picture:
Railway bridge at the end of the rue Hallé, 14e:
37 rue Dareau, 14e:
32 rue Dareau:
Junction of the rue des Plantes and the villa Brune, 14e:
Continuation of the villa Brune, up towards a section of the Petite Ceinture railway line:
The église Saint Merri, rue Saint-Martin, 4e:
This is a view of the way into the network of streets under the Olympiades housing complex in the 13e, coming from the rue Nationale:
Didier Abot locates this exit at 48 rue Baudricourt:
Didier sent several scouting pictures for this location:
This street still eludes identification:
The pont Alexandre III, again, then the pont des Invalides, then the pont Alexandre III, again:
The Hotel Friedland, 177 rue du faubourg Saint Honoré, 8e (from a deleted scene):
The avenue des Champs Elysées, 8e, then Fouquet's, on the corner with the avenue George V:
The Hotel Raphael, 17 avenue Kleber, 16e:
La Samaritaine, 1e:
Views from the roof of La Samaritaine - the tour Eiffel and the Panthéon:
Notre Dame:
the Pont Neuf:
The rue Soufflot, 5e, leading to the Panthéon:
The cité-jardin 'des Dents de scie', avenue Marceau, built by Henri & André Gutton, 1926-1932, at Trappes-en-Yvelines, 78:
quai Aulagnier, Asnières-sur-Seine, 92:
The former Citroën factory at Asnières-sur-Seine (see here):
For the moment I've only tried to identify exteriors, though from the thanks listed, above, we can see that the theatre at the beginning is Le Trianon, 80 boulevard Rochechouart, 18e:
See here for the photo-shoot scene in Holy Motors.
(I don't think there are any maps to speak of, and the staircases are all interior, I think.)
(I don't think there are any maps to speak of, and the staircases are all interior, I think.)
Once again my thanks to Didier Abot.