Since Monday April 26, 2021, a film shoot has been taking place in the streets of downtown Rouen. “A little brother” is the title of the feature film directed by Léonor Séraille. The filmmaker won the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2017 with her previous film, “Jeune femme”. Filming continues throughout Normandy until Monday, May 10.
Rouen as a setting for the cinema is nothing new! The list of films in which we find scenes shot in the Norman capital is even to be found on the Rouen Tourisme website. Let us quote pell-same “The taste of others” of Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, “Gemma Bovery” of Anne Fontaine, “Mesrine, the public enemy n ° 1” of Jean-François Richet, or the most distant “Farewell chicken”, by Pierre Granier-Deferre.
“A little brother” tells the story of a mother and her two sons, who arrived in France in 1989, who are followed from Paris to Normandy, from 1989 to 2010. The provincial part requires 4 weeks of filming. Rouen and throughout Normandy. This is the reason why you may have seen “vintage” vehicles or even signs indicating prices in francs in recent days, on the rue Beauvoisine side. Place de la Rougemare, it is the canteen of the filming which is installed. Among the actors that it is possible to see in front of the cameras, Annabelle Lengronne, Stéphane Bak, Ahmed Sylla or Kenzo Sambin.
The filming, authorized by the City, sometimes requires some adjustments. The Blue Monday Productions team is responsible for warning residents upstream, with posters in the streets, when parking spaces must become available for example. Rouen on the big screen, it is to be found in cinemas, probably in 2022.
Léonor Séraille’s previous film, “Young Woman”:
