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Cinema: Deauville’s wooden promenade celebrates its 100th anniversary
Cinema: Deauville’s wooden promenade celebrates its 100th anniversary
(France 2)
Since 1924, celebrities and tourists have been walking the wooden boards of Deauville, in Calvados. The promenade continues to inspire dreams.
Since 1924, the Deauville (Calvados) boards have been iconic. “It’s the movies, it’s the history it represents, it’s also the American film festival”explains a man. The town’s wooden promenade is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Designed at the same time as the new bathing establishment, the planks are imagined as a ship’s bridge to connect the cabins to the beach.
“It has become a place of sociability, a popular place for walking”says Philippe Normand, author of Les Planches, Deauville, 100 years of historyThe boards are also the setting of the film. A man and a womanin which Jean-Louis Trintignant drives his mustang towards his loved one. “I want to think that Françoise Sagan and Cocteau left something extra on these boards”assures Claude Lelouch, director ofA man and a womanThe wooden path is renewed every fifteen years.
