L'Estaque and movies
Robert Guédiguian
A link between sea and hill, L'Estaque is at the heart of Robert Guédiguian’s films. L'Estaque remains one of the most authentic districts of Marseille today. Former fishing hamlet, then industrial port from the 19th century, it has become, thanks to the filmmaker, a symbol of sharing and authenticity.
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La maison est situé à côté de l'ancien cinéma le Rio - aujourd'hui le PIC - télématique : un pole instrumental contemporain.
"Le chemin des peintres"
Art Direction & Photography
The natural and industrial landscapes of L'Estaque were a source of inspiration for great French artists who stayed there between 1870 and 1914, such as the writer Émile Zola, the painters Paul Cézanne, Georges Braque, André Derain, Raoul Dufy , Othon Friesz, Albert Marquet, and Auguste Renoir who declared L'Estaque's landscape "the most beautiful in the world".
From the terrace of the house on the street side, or from the bedroom we can see the spectacle that Braque painted in one of the first cubist paintings. the Viaduct shows us a view of the village represented in the form of a cluster of identical houses separated by a few maritime pines. At the top of this accumulation is the viaduct.
Les courées
The courtyard is a form of workers' housing mixing the characteristics of collective housing with individual housing. Some inhabitants of the courtyards, the oldest, speak of the time when their parents and sometimes grandparents arrived from Italy and Spain in Marseille and L'Estaque to work in the factories. The working class memory is linked to the precarious living conditions, difficult and laborious, which went hand in hand with mutual aid and family and neighborhood solidarity stronger than today. The population of the courées then presented a great social homogeneity, since most of its inhabitants were workers.
