Last one for this film - a regret post. I tried for ages to find these places - Jacques Tati's apartment, and his sister's 'ultra modern' house, before I found out they were sets, built for the film... Very sad realisation.
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This guy, manages to go the whole film without actually sweeping anything up, even though it seems to be his job. This is worth two recent pictures - the church in the first one is somewhat hidden by cars and vans, and the second one shows the building in the background.
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A bit further down the same road, Rue du Four, the Nouvelle Librairie is now Central Parc. I didn't select the most recent picture here due to glare from the low sun, but this 2022 image is basically the same as the 2023. The advertising bollard has grown into a beautiful tree.
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Rubbish and dogs everywhere in the film. This is Rue du Four, the building on the right in 1958 is behind the tree now, and the door on the left is there next to La Fabrique Cafe. Not sure where the dogs are now.
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Jacques Tati, is the titular #MonOncle from 1958. Mostly filmed in Val de Marnes on the outskirts of Paris. Pretty unrecognisable overall, it was still in quite a state in '58: 13 years post war maybe shows? This is the opening shot. Rue de la Procession.
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This is bleak. At least it had some a splash of colour on the door in 1965. Avenue de Verdun, Fontenay-aux-Roses. Where are the roses...?
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François steps into the post office on Av Du Chateau, Vicennes, to use the phone. He's just about to meet Émilie (Marie-France Boyer) which is going to change everything for him. Also the building changed. Like the door shifted to the right for one thing. I prefer the 1965 look.
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A few meters away, the entrance to the workshop our protagonist, François (Jean-Claude Drouot) works in was even actually (still?) a carpenter's workshop (Menuiserie) in the 2nd image from 2015. The more recent one, only 2 years later has no sign above the door.
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While here, the trees are smaller! This is Place du General De Gaulle in Fontenay-aux-Roses. The recent image is a wider shot and a bit grainy as it's zoomed in. The buildings are remarkably similar 60 years later, even the paint colour. Pity the bus blocks the shot a bit.
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Bigger trees, not much else has changed. Rue Juliette Savars, Créteil, Île-de-France in Agnes Varda's #LeBonheur. (1965) Recent picture from 2023.
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Just one shot this time, it was difficult tracking down modern locations (even other scenes in this area were too hard). From 1965's #TimeToLove, a Turkish classic. Filmed in Istanbul's Prince's Islands, not much change here, apart from the foreground awning. And visitor numbers.
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And finally, a very sad loss. Back in Brighton, the West Pier, closed in 1975, fell apart with plans for restoration over the following years, but collapsed then burned down (arson) in 2003, never to be repaired. The metal skeleton as iconic now as the original, in its own way.
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Here, Robert Flemyng has just confronted Bogarde outside St Lawrence Church, Abbot Langsley, in Hertfordshire. This is looking south along High Street, the gable roof and windows here have barely changed. Not much happens in small English towns. The pub sign still swings...
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Here's the bandstand. From the film, the present day and a 'bonus' shot from down by the beach. The restoration is great. Now used mostly not for bands, but weddings, people playing guitar, and late night drinking. So: Brides, Buskers, and Beer. And a half decent cafe below.
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From 1955 and also, crucially, from Brighton (my home town) #CastADarkShadow with Dirk Bogarde.
This shot is from the bandstand, which was derelict for a while but has been restored. You can see Embassy Court (far left) and the Ramada (now Mercure) Hotel, both Listed Buildings
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The pub is just about the only recognisable thing in the area. Most of the street is 'new' flats. The drunk guy smashes his empty pint glass against this shop. Except the shop is no longer there, replaced by this architectural delight. Someone threw paint at this, rather than beer.
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Arthur (Albert Finney) goes for a walk from his home in Nottingham, and somehow ends up in London. This is Culvert Road, Battersea. A drunk man leaves the pub, The British Flag - now just 'The Flag' - and stumbles across the road ready for a bit of petty vandalism.
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'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning', 1960. Set and mostly filmed in Nottingham. #AlbertFinney just got on the bus going down the hill. This is Derby Road, with #StBarnabasCathedral spire seen above the shops on the right. A few newer buildings, but overall, not so different.
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Again, #MonsieurKlein, now in Strasbourg, Petite France. In 1976, the buildings behind them were linked by another building that has now gone - strange to remove that, and replace with...what exactly? The hotel on the left increased in height. I definitely prefer the older version.
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1976, #MonsieurKlein - Alain Delon boards a bus to an uncertain fate during the round up of Parisian Jews. The film is closer in time to the events than it is to today.
This is located at Place Lucien Herr, in Paris. As ever, losing road for trees improves things hugely.
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Finally - less obvious, but here Jack Hawkins is at a petrol station/garage, little more than a hut in a layby in Pen-y-Gwryd, Wales. It's all gone now, just a field again with a bit of a platform where the layby used to be. The hills and lake behind give it away.
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Elsewhere, in the same film, one of the suspects goes home past this building. The scene is largely unchanged, although here sadly the street trees seem to have gone. Also the old street lights.
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1956's #TheLongArm aka #TheThirdKey. Robbery about to take place in the Blackwall Shipping Company on Crisp Road.
Today, there's no room for the truck. Bikes and trees have taken over, and it looks great. The warehouse on the right has gone, but the building on the left remains.
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The oldest one yet I think. #TheLavenderHillMob from 1951, you see much of post war London under reconstruction at various points, but here's the view looking north east up Queen Victoria Street, near St Paul's Cathedral in 1951, and later in 2021.
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