Paul Meurisse (white suit) during filming of “Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe” at the Auguste Renoir house "Les Collettes". With the aid of mechanical wind devices a tempest, the mistral, turns the déjeuner into catastrophe. Cagnes-sur-Mer 1959.
At Auguste Renoir's former home in Cagnes-sur-Mer, a chaotic scene unfolds during the 1959 filming of “Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe”. Actor Paul Meurisse, in a white suit, is at the center of the action as a woman clings to him and a man struggles with a large parasol. A tempest, representing the mistral, was created on set with mechanical wind devices, turning the idyllic picnic into a catastrophe.
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