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A word from the founder
As a Parisian and film historian, I have always loved sharing my love for cinema and my city with others.
In 2011, when there was strong demand from Parisians and visitors for cultural activities off the beaten track, no one was talking about film tourism yet. At the time, I was working in film production and I wanted to combine my two passions. With the arrival of digital tablets, the idea came to me and the first film tour was born.
With Ciné-Balade, I invite you to use cinema as a gateway to a tourist and cultural rediscovery of Paris through immersive tours where archive footage, film clips and little-known anecdotes come together to offer you a lively and unique experience.
Since then, I have had the pleasure of accompanying thousands of you on walks with renewed enthusiasm. Thank you for sharing back your love of cinema with me. I hope to welcome you very soon for a new urban and cinematic journey.
Juliette Dubois
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When you hear “Paris in the movies”, a thousand images and stories immediately spring to mind. Ciné-Balade was born of the desire to show and tell them.
Ciné-Balade
Leading player in cine-tourism
Heritage, cinema and tourism
Paris. The most visited city in the world, but also the most filmed.
If in the collective imagination, the French capital is a city symbolizing freedom, love and light, cinema is no stranger to it.
For many visitors, strolling along the Champs-Élysées or the cobbled streets of Montmartre is like walking in the footsteps of Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg or Amélie Poulain.
For others, it’s the chance to discover the Paris idealized by the Emily in Paris series, or to forge an intimate bond with a beloved auteur like François Truffaut by touring the neighborhood of his childhood.
Back in 2011, when Ciné-Balade launched its first tours, this still little-known form of cine-tourism was mainly practiced by local tourists, eager to rediscover their city off the beaten track. Today, things have changed: 1 in 4 tourists say they want to visit a place after seeing it in a film or series, making the 7th art an essential vehicle for promoting heritage.
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STUPÉFIANT !
François Truffaut’s secrets
STUPÉFIANT !
François Truffaut’s secrets
This documentary broadcast on France 5 on July 8, 2020, as a new audience discovered his cinema on the Netflix platform, reveals, through the testimonies of those who frequented him, those who analyzed him and those who passionately loved him, a fresh look at the work of a director more timeless than ever.
To see the complete program, follow ce lien.
Invitation au voyage
The Paris of François Truffaut
Invitation au voyage
The Paris of François Truffaut
Montmartre, les Batignolles, the Moulin Rouge or Place Pigalle… This program takes a look back at these iconic Parisian landmarks, which were all places of life for the young François Truffaut. During his childhood, he wandered up and down the streets of this popular Paris. At the end of the 1950s, the Parisian filmmaker made The 400 blows, his first feature-length film and his first breakthrough, in which he took a fresh, mischievous look at this lively city.
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In Montreuil, we enter the field of cinema
The city of Seine-Saint-Denis is the perfect place to take a cinephile’s stroll. From Le Méliès cinema to recent film locations, via the Pathé studios…
I tried out… a ciné-balade in Montmartre
Following in the footsteps of guide Juliette Dubois, our journalist went up to survey the pretty Butte, where the City of Light has been making movies for almost a century…
“Le Paris d’Agnès Varda”, a nostalgic virtual tour of the 14th arrondissement
Our journalist tested this ciné-balade dedicated to the director of “Cleo from 5 to 7”, adapted to the lockdown periods…
C’est mon week-end.
Ciné-balade through Paris stations
C’est mon week-end.
Ciné-balade through Paris stations
TÉLÉMATIN
The (new) crossing of Paris
TÉLÉMATIN
The (new) crossing of Paris
The Télématin team on France 2 followed the ciné-balade in Montmartre.
To see the full program, follow ce lien.
For my intervention, watch the video!
Paris: follow in the footsteps of major film shoots in the 16th arrondissement
This Saturday morning, take a walk in the 16th arrondissement, around the great films that were shot between the Eiffel Tower and the Bir-Hakeim Bridge. Follow the guide…
Montreuil: in the footsteps of Georges Méliès
This Saturday, the departmental tourist board launches a series of walks dedicated to the famous film-maker and inventor of special effects.
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