Sunday, August 27, 2017

Unnamed IR, Rue de l'Angouleme, Annecy, France

It's here. Why was I sniffing around Annecy on google maps? 

Because the 2012-15 French supernatural series Les Revenants (remade in the US as The Returned) is set in a modernist village in regional France (and filmed largely in Annecy). In the second episode of the second season, Claire Séguret – the mother of two ‘returned’ (undead) girls – wanders, disoriented, down a treelined path into a cultivated park space where, suddenly, a host of her zombielike former neighbours appear around her. There is no retreat possible; clearly, there is only one way in and one way out of this park. We do not see what happens to Claire, but we do see her come to consciousness, bruised but alive, in the same small park.

I can't tell whether this is the park in question, although the pathway to the park Claire finds herself in is similarly tree-lined. But google maps being road-based as it understandably is, there's no way of seeing inside the space itself (just a very hazy aerial view). 

By the way a small point: just wanted to say I'm trying very hard to get the accents right on Angouleme but blogger keeps cleaning the word up! 

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