The Dinner Game (1998)
- Documented locations
- 12
- Year
- 1998
- Directed by
- Francis Veber
- Original title
- Le Dîner de cons
- Cities
- Paris, Vendôme, Ruffec, Boulogne-Billancourt, Epinay-sur-Seine
Paris, France
Racing Sports Club at the Croix Catelan estate in Bois de Boulogne. Founded in 1970 and restructured in 2006, it is a sports club and a high-level facility.
The scene : 2 minThe bar-restaurant where Brochant meets his friends at the beginning of the film.
Vendôme, France
TGV station serving Vendôme, in the Loir-et-Cher. This railway station was put into service in 1990. It is located on the LGV Atlantique, straddling the territories of Vendôme and Villiers-sur-Loir.
The scene : 4 minThe TGV transporting François Pignon crosses the station.
Ruffec, France
Ruffec railway station, in Charente.
The scene : 4 minAnother station crossed by Pignon's TGV.
Paris, France
The scene : 5 minJust after the shots of the TGV, the car that comes out of a parking lot.
Paris, France
The scene : 26 minMarlène Sasseur takes the road from Pierre Brochant's house.
Paris, France
The scene : 37 minThe hall of Pierre Brochant's building and most of the interior scenes of his apartment.
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Art Deco Town Hall of Boulogne-Billancourt, inaugurated in 1934. Designed by architect Tony Garnier, it is listed as a historical monument and labeled Heritage of the 20th century.
The scene : 51 minThe office on the first floor where Cheval visits Pignon, then returns to fetch the Meneaux file in the middle of the night.
Paris, France
The scene : 1 hr 4 minChristine Brochant climbs the road and then crashes her vehicle at the intersection.
Paris, France
The scene : 1 hr 12 minThe hospitalization of Christine Brochant.
Paris, France
Headquarters of the Ministry of Economy built in 1989, spanning the Seine at Bercy, featuring a dock and a helipad. Designed by Borja Huidobro, Louis Arretche, and Paul Chemetov, it is a remarkable example of contemporary postmodern architecture.
The scene : The exterior of the Ministry of Finance where François Pignon works.
Paris, France
The scene : The arrival of François Pignon's TGV at the station.
Epinay-sur-Seine, France
The Épinay Studios are a complex of film studios located in Épinay-sur-Seine, in Seine-Saint-Denis, and are among the oldest in France. Their origins date back to 1907, when industrialist Charles Jourjon founded the company Éclair, which became the third French firm behind Pathé and Gaumont in the 1910s. The studio itself was set up in 1913 and was then acquired by Éclair in 1914. By the end of the 1920s, the German company Tobis established one of the first sound studios in France at the same address, utilizing the Tobis-Klangfilm process; these neighboring facilities were absorbed by Éclair in 1938. The site long housed film sets and significant development and post-production laboratories, with its studios being taken over by the TSF group in 2009, before the opening of the nearby Cité du cinéma reduced their activity from 2012.
The scene : The interior sets of the film shot in the studio.