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Puy du Fou have revealed more information on their major new attraction for 2023. The attraction will be called The Mime and the Star, will debut on 8th April and represents a €20million (£17.5m) investment. It has been under development for three years and been under construction since last year.
This will be the seventh major show in the park and joins the line-up of other walk through attractions, themed areas and experiences in the park.
The backstory of the show:
We are in 1914 and visitors are invited to watch, in silence, the shooting of a brand new film starring Garance, the rising star of the 7th art (filmmaking), and Mimoza, the dreamy young mime. On the set, the director Gérard Bideau hopes to realize his dream... He is indeed convinced that only a sincere love will be able to offer silent and black and white cinema, colour and sound. In front of the director's camera, Mimoza draws from her childhood dreams a thousand tricks and illusions to impress the one who has already won her heart. But the filming is suddenly interrupted by a dramatic event that upsets the life of the young Gypsy, shakes up Garance's budding feelings and destroys all the director's hopes...
This show is billed as 'scenographic revolution' The latest addition to the Puy du Fou shows, "The Mime and the Star" is the fruit of 45 years of creative experience. Through its sets, mobile props, hundreds of costumes and stage effects, this ambitious and spectacular creation recreates the exact aesthetics of a period film in black and white, without filters or artifices between the spectator's eye and the stage, with real characters in real settings.
Lasting 28 minutes, it evokes cinema in black and white, silent with dialogues inscribed on the set. It's the story of a mime, a gypsy, in love with a young actress... and this love will tip the cinema towards modernity.
The 2000 spectators are projected into the heart of a shoot giving him the illusion that he is following the camera filming. It's actually the scenery that moves, over almost 2 km of street thanks to the process of reverse traveling, but also the 120 characters who move on treadmills.
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdgFog_v4GI&t=1s
Comprehensive details can be found on Androland - use auto-translate.
This will be the seventh major show in the park and joins the line-up of other walk through attractions, themed areas and experiences in the park.
The backstory of the show:
We are in 1914 and visitors are invited to watch, in silence, the shooting of a brand new film starring Garance, the rising star of the 7th art (filmmaking), and Mimoza, the dreamy young mime. On the set, the director Gérard Bideau hopes to realize his dream... He is indeed convinced that only a sincere love will be able to offer silent and black and white cinema, colour and sound. In front of the director's camera, Mimoza draws from her childhood dreams a thousand tricks and illusions to impress the one who has already won her heart. But the filming is suddenly interrupted by a dramatic event that upsets the life of the young Gypsy, shakes up Garance's budding feelings and destroys all the director's hopes...
This show is billed as 'scenographic revolution' The latest addition to the Puy du Fou shows, "The Mime and the Star" is the fruit of 45 years of creative experience. Through its sets, mobile props, hundreds of costumes and stage effects, this ambitious and spectacular creation recreates the exact aesthetics of a period film in black and white, without filters or artifices between the spectator's eye and the stage, with real characters in real settings.
Lasting 28 minutes, it evokes cinema in black and white, silent with dialogues inscribed on the set. It's the story of a mime, a gypsy, in love with a young actress... and this love will tip the cinema towards modernity.
The 2000 spectators are projected into the heart of a shoot giving him the illusion that he is following the camera filming. It's actually the scenery that moves, over almost 2 km of street thanks to the process of reverse traveling, but also the 120 characters who move on treadmills.
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdgFog_v4GI&t=1s
Comprehensive details can be found on Androland - use auto-translate.
