Filmmaker Wim Wenders sometimes worked without a script, especially for the second part of his masterpiece Paris-Texas (1984). But for Every Thing Will Be Finefilm shot here in 2015, he wanted a storyboard well detailed allowing him to manage his shooting in the cold Quebec. He then called on the French illustrator Stéphane Lemardelé, who has been living in Quebec since 1995. The result of their collaboration, this attractive drawn scenario is an unusual and fascinating document that gives pride of place to the German director’s cinematographic thinking. Several drawings will make readers smile, orange cones, snow removal trucks, Mount Royal, but also the Oka wharf and Lac des Deux-Montagnes, where several scenes were shot. The result is a bushy comic behind the scenes of filming, on the importance of the 7e art, 3D and image, on the influence of Edward Hopper and the origin of the word “OK”
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