Almeria 68: Des stars, du sable et des larmes
(Almería 68: Stars, Sand and Tears)
Author: Philippe Lombard
Country: France
Publisher: Hugo Document
Language: French
Pages: 240
ISBN: 2755674741
Available: May 7, 2024
January 1968. Brigitte Bardot no longer had a choice: the filming of Shalako, the film by Edward Dmytryk (the man who threw more than one colleague during the witch hunt of the sinister McCarthy) was waiting for her. But on the tarmac of Malaga airport, her heart was not in it. He stayed in Paris, with Serge Gainsbourg, who wrote for her, Je t'aime... moi non plus, the most beautiful love song.
Her partner, Sean Connery, has sent James Bond's producers to pasture, and imposes his moustache and baldness on the set. In the middle of the Andalusian desert, the backdrop for Leone's dollar trilogy, Bardot can count on the support of his "rival", Michèle Mercier, heroine of a "broke" western by Robert Hossein, financed by a crooked producer, always escorted by a bodyguard nicknamed "Lolo-the-Terror", – and on the attentions of the young Michael Caine, who, barely recovered from a rifle tourista, embarks under the direction of the formidable André de Toth (the man with the black headband) in the epic filming of Children of Bastards...
On a film set, anything can happen thwarted love stories,
ego battles, anthology drunkenness, mammoth shenanigans, incredible stunts,
filming accidents and settling of scores... But rarely have filming experienced
so many mishaps simultaneously and so intensely! A great storyteller of the
adventures of the 7th art, Philippe Lombard delivers here in this
(d)astonishing book, the thunderous story of an explosive period of cinema,
whose explosions will undoubtedly herald the protest upheavals of May 68.
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