INTERVIEW. Martine Lonjou-Vérines: “In Montricoux, the family home served as a rear base for the team of the film Le Vieux Fusil”

Daughter of the well -known Montalbanese entrepreneur Yves Lonjou. Meanwhile, Martine had the chance to live as closely as possible the shooting of the old rifle in the spring of 1975.

“My parents had a country house in Montricoux chemin de la Beauze. Similarly, on the road to Bruniquel. Therefore, The film team had sort of quarters there. She rose to it, made breaks. I remember that they were very numerous, we almost left them the house! The link was made thanks to interview. martine lonjou-vérines: “in montricoux, Michel Saussac, the film’s decorator. He was a friend of my father. like Jacques Santi, the actor Maurice Besse, who plays the pharmacist in the film. When something was missing for filming, it was my father who was called. For example a horse with its cart ”.

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Martine Lonjou was therefore able to see Robert Enrico or Alain Belmondo, Jean-Paul’s brother, attached to the production of the old rifle, without counting the technicians, and all the small hands necessary for ambitious shooting. “Philippe Noiret. Romy Schneider or Jean Bouise did not come to the house, regrets a little Martine, but I could see them in Bruniquel during certain scenes”.

Montricoux. forgotten – Interview. martine lonjou-vérines: "in montricoux,

For our visit, Martine had gathered a lot interview. martine lonjou-vérines: “in montricoux, of unpublished photos, taken in Montricoux, sometimes at the stadium during a famous football match according to shooting at the Maurice-Daugé stadium. On one of the shots, a technician holds a clap with the mention “The old gun”. Humor picky, just to derive from sometimes heavy atmospheres.

For Martine, this anniversary is also an opportunity to return to Montricoux what is up to her. “Of course, the main thing happened in Bruniquel, but there was also, and we forgot it, scenes shot in Montricoux. We see it in the film. I was there, I remember it very well. ». The name of Montricoux is at least cited in the film, by the voice of an FFI at the end.

Martine also remembers the “Premiere” at the Le Paris cinema in Montauban. “All the gratin of the city of Ingres was there. there were mixed reactions at the exit, Mezzo Voce, interview. martine lonjou-vérines: “in montricoux, some found the film too violent. However, that’s what happened with the Das Reich division… ”.

If she is not in the old rifle. even as a simple figurative, Martine Lonjou has returned to the cinema of the years later, when her Montauban beauty institute served as a setting for the film clairvoyance and branch, by Eric Fourniols with Emmanuel Béart and Anemone, in 2001. “Well, it was not a slices successful, but it was fun to live”.

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