U.S. and France
France in American Films - 2000's
CHOCOLAT
2000
Director: Lasse Hallstrom.
Cast: Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin.
Location: Lansquenet (fictituous town).
Notes: Mostly shot in England. Only a few scenes were shot in France, in Flavigny-sur-Ozerain (Burgundy) and in Sarlat (Dordogne).
102 DALMATIANS
2000
Director: Kevin Lima.
Cast: Glenn Close, Gerard Depardieu.
Location: Paris.
Notes: Scenes in Paris appear during the second half of the film.
QUILLS
2000
Director: Philip Kaufman.
Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine.
Location: Paris.
FINAL DESTINATION
2000
Director: James Wong.
Cast: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Tony Todd.
Location: Paris.
Notes: The very last scene takes place in Paris. Filmed in studio.
RUGRATS IN PARIS: THE MOVIE - RUGRATS II
2000
Directors: Stig Bergqvist, Paul Demeyer.
Voices: Elizabeth Daily, Tara Strong, Cheryl Chase, Christine Cavanaugh.
Location: Paris (various locations, including: Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral; the Eiffel Tower; the Seine).
Notes: Animated film.
MOULIN ROUGE!
2001
Director: Baz Luhrmann.
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo.
Location: Paris.
THE AFFAIR OF THE NECKLACE
2001
Director: Charles Shyer.
Cast: Hilary Swank, Jonathan Pryce, Adrien Brody, Christopher Walken.
Location: France.
Notes: Filmed on location and in the Czech Republic.
CQ
2001
Director: Roman Coppola.
Cast: Jeremy Davies, Elodie Bouchez, Gerard Depardieu.
Location: Paris.
Notes: Filmed shortly in France, but mostly in Luxemburg.
SWORDFISH
2001
Director: Dominic Sena.
Cast: John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle.
Location: Nice (Riviera).
Notes: Short sequence, filmed on location.
THE CHATEAU
2001
Director: Jesse Peretz.
Cast: Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Sylvie Testud.
Location: France.
Notes: Filmed in Pithiviers (Loiret).
THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE
2002
Director: Jonathan Demme.
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Thandie Newton, Stephen Dillane, Tim Robbins.
Location: Martinique (French Antilles); Paris.
THE BOURNE IDENTITY
2002
Director: Doug Liman.
Cast: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper.
Location: Paris (various locations, including: the Port de la Tournelle; the Place de l’Hôtel de ville; the Pont-Neuf; the Samaritaine; the Ile Saint-Louis; the Pont des Arts; the Hôtel Régina, Place des Pyramides; the Rue de Rivoli; the Tuileries Gardens; the Avenue Kléber near the Arc de Triomphe; the Place des Etats-Unis; the Place du Marché Sainte Catherine; Gare du Nord; Belleville; the Mortuary; the Grande Arche in La Défense).
Notes: Filmed on location and in the Czech Republic.
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
2002
Director: Kevin Reynolds.
Cast: James Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris.
Location: Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhone); Paris.
Notes: Filmed in Malta and Ireland.
FEMME FATALE
2002
Director: Brian De Palma.
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Peter Coyote.
Location: Cannes (Riviera); Paris (various locations, including: Rond-Point des Champs Elysees; Place Francois-1er; Passerelle Debilly; the Eiffel Tower).
Notes: Filmed entirely on location.
LE DIVORCE
2003
Director: James Ivory.
Cast: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Leslie Caron, Glenn Close.
Location: Paris.
SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE
2003
Director: Nancy Meyers.
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves.
Location: Paris (various locations, including: the Seine; the Place des Vosges; restaurant Le Grand Colbert, rue Vivienne).
Notes: Scenes in Paris appear at the end of the film. Filmed on location.
THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN
2003
Director: Stephen Norrington.
Cast: Sean Connery, Stuart Townsend, Jason Flemyng, Peta Wilson.
Location: Paris.
Notes: Short computer-generated scene, set in and around the fictitious Rue Morgue (a creation of American writer Edgar Allan Poe).
VIEW FROM THE TOP
2003
Director: Bruno Barreto.
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Mark Ruffalo, Candice Bergen.
Location: Paris.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
2004
Director: Frank Coraci.
Cast: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Robert Fyfe.
Location: Paris.
Notes: Scenes in France appear at the beginning of the film.
BEFORE SUNSET
2004
Director: Richard Linklater.
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy.
Location: Paris.
MODIGLIANI
2004
Director: Mick Davis.
Cast: Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Omid Djalili.
Location: Paris (notably the Montparnasse district).
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
2004
Director: Joel Schumacher.
Cast: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson.
Location: Paris.
Notes: Filmed in England and in the Czech Republic.
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS
2004
Director: John Duigan.
Cast: Charlize Theron, Penelope Cruz, Stuart Townsend.
Location: Paris.
DE-LOVELY
2004
Director: Irwin Winkler.
Cast: Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce.
Location: Paris.
Notes: A few scenes take place in Paris.
OCEAN’S TWELVE
2004
Director: Steven Soderbergh.
Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon.
Location: Paris (various locations, including: Gare du Nord; La Sorbonne University).
Notes: A few scenes take place in Paris. Filmed on location.
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
2005
Director: Ridley Scott.
Cast: Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons.
Location: France.
Notes: The very first and very last scenes take place in France. Filmed in Spain and Morocco.
MUNICH
2005
Director: Steven Spielberg.
Cast: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Geoffrey Rush, Mathieu Kassovitz, Michael Lonsdale.
Location: Paris (various locations, including: Bir-Hakeim Bridge; Rue Mouffetard).
Notes: A few scenes, filmed on location and in Budapest, Hungary, take place in Paris.
THE PINK PANTHER
2006
Director: Shawn Levy.
Cast: Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Beyoncé Knowles, Jean Reno.
Location: Paris (various locations, including: La Sorbonne University; the Place de la Concorde); Magny-en-Vexin (Ile de France).
Notes: Filmed on location.
THE DA VINCI CODE
2006
Director: Ron Howard.
Cast: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Ian McKellen, Paul Bettany.
Location: Paris (various locations, including: the Ritz Hotel; the Place Vendôme; the Louvre Museum; the Church of Saint-Sulpice); Chateau de Villette, in Condecourt (Ile de France).
Notes: The first half of the film takes place in France. Filmed mostly on location, except for some interiors (notably Church of Saint-Sulpice) recreated in studio.
MARIE-ANTOINETTE
2006
Director: Sofia Coppola.
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn, Judy Davis, Asia Argento.
Location: Paris; Chateau de Versailles (Ile de France).
Notes: Filmed on location and in various other chateaux, notably Vaux-le-Vicomte, Dampierre-en-Yvelines, Millemont, Pontchartrain and Champs-sur-Marne (Ile de France).
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
2006
Director: David Frankel.
Cast: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci.
Location: Paris (various locations, including: the Pont des Arts; the Musée Galliera; the Petit Palais; the Avenue Montaigne and the Hotel Plaza Athénée; the Place de la Concorde).
Notes: A few scenes take place in Paris. Filmed on location.
A GOOD YEAR
2006
Director: Ridley Scott.
Cast: Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Marion Cotillard.
Location: The Vaucluse region, particularly Bonnieux, Gordes and Avignon; Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhone).
Notes: Filmed on location. The vineyard scenes were filmed at Château La Canorgue in Bonnieux.
RATATOUILLE
2007
Director: Brad Bird.
Voices: Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano.
Location: Paris (various locations, including: the Eiffel Tower; the sewers; the Seine; several bridges, including Pont au Double and Pont Saint-Michel).
Notes: Animated film.
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
2007
Director: Paul Greengrass.
Cast: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn.
Location: Paris.
Notes: A few scenes take place in Paris. Filmed on location for two days.
RUSH HOUR 3
2007
Director: Brett Ratner.
Cast: Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan, Max von Sydow, Yvan Attal, Roman Polanski.
Location: Paris (various locations, including: Charles-de-Gaulle airport; the Invalides; the Theatre des Champs-Elysees on Avenue Montaigne; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Quai d’Orsay; the Café de la Paix on Place de l’Opera; the Eiffel Tower; the Fountain of Warsaw in the Trocadero Gardens).
Notes: The second part of the film takes place in Paris. Filmed on location for five weeks.
NATIONAL TREASURE 2: BOOK OF SECRETS
2007
Director: Jon Turteltaub.
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren.
Location: Paris (notably the small-scale Statue of Liberty on Ile aux Cygnes, near Pont de Grenelle).
Notes: A few scenes take place in Paris. Filmed on location.
TRAITOR
2008
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff.
Cast: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Saïd Taghmaoui.
Location: Nice (Riviera) and Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhone).
Notes: A few scenes take place in France. Filmed on location.
THE PINK PANTHER 2
2009
Director: Harald Zwart.
Cast: Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Andy Garcia, Alfred Molina.
Location: Paris.
Notes: The first scenes take place in Paris. Filmed on location.
INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
2009
Director: Quentin Tarantino.
Cast: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Eli Roth, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger.
Location: Paris.
Notes: Filmed mostly in Germany. A few scenes were filmed on location, notably in and around Bistrot La Renaissance, at the corner of Rue du Championnet and Rue du Poteau (18th arrondissement).