2024 has been full of phenomena in the world of cinema. Yes last year Barbie and Oppenheimer were the great protagonists in the theaters, in these months films such as Wicked either Gladiator II They have had great expectations. One of the surprises has been The substance, the movie starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley which has given a lot to talk about since its premiere in Spain.
The film directed by Coraline Fargeat is set in the city of Los Angeles and in the Hollywood environment, and taking into account that it is there where the great studios, The most logical thing would be to think that The substance It was filmed there… but no. The tape is a production from France, and all the sequences of the feature film They were filmed in the French country: specifically in Paris and in a very specific region that simulated the ‘City of Stars’.
The places in France where ‘The Substance’ was filmed
As confirmed on the website of The French Film Commission, the team of The substance filmed in two locations near Paris. The first of them was Nanterre, capital of the Hauts-de-Seine department, while they used the Studios d’Épinay de Saint-Denis (where the version of Beauty and the beast by Jacques Cousteau in 1946) to record the interiors. As for the exteriors, The streets of the capital of France cannot be more opposite than the avenues of Los Angeles: so where was it made? The answer is almost 1,000 kilometers away.
To make viewers believe that Demi Moore was on the luxurious streets of Los Angeles, the filming set of The substance moved to shores of the Mediterranean, to the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. It was precisely in this last one that the exterior scenes of the film were recorded, and the opulent French Riviera served as location to recreate the enclaves of the California city.
Specifically, the scenes were recorded in two locations in the French Riviera: Antibes, a picturesque town bathed by the Mediterranean whose historic center is on the seashore, and Saint-Laurent-du-Var, a town of Nice metropolitan area full of beaches, yacht clubs and hotels that receives thousands of tourists every summer. His promenade flanked by palm trees It reminds (a lot) of Rodeo Drive, Sunset Boulevard and the rest of the best-known streets in Los Angeles.