It Began as a Holiday – Modelmaking for "The French Dispatch" | Berlinale Talents 2022

The quaint little town of Ennui-sur-Blasé is yet another whimsical invention of Wes Anderson’s. Yet the fictional town of « The French Dispatch » owes much of its life to the models and miniatures that populate the scenes and mimic the story’s Russian-doll structure, all courtesy of Anderson’s long-standing collaborators, production designer Adam Stockhausen and model maker Simon Weisse. Joined by Simon’s team, they share the tools and secrets of a unique trade with Berlinale Talents: sketches, photographs and animatics all play a crucial part in the daily labour of a model maker and are here unveiled to help us understand how a film of monumental ambition relies on the minute assemblage of pieces of plywood. After all, in film, a house can be the size of a hand, and the life of fictitious French village depends on a well-prepared workbench.

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