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When I was 15 years old I discovered the French cinema (les quatre cents coups of François Truffaut, the classical films of Marcel Carné, the films of Jean-Luc Godard), the Czechoslovaquian cinema (Milos Forman, Jiri Menzel), the Italian realism (Fellini, Vittorio de Sica, Antonioni) and the young directors of my country: Alain Tanner, Michel Soutter, Claude Goretta and Rolf Lyssy.
I enjoy romantic films, but also dramatic, historical, comic films, crime stories of a lot of countries: United States, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Algeria, Marroco, Mexico, Argentina, Japan , Belgium, Czech Republic Republic, Switzerland, Spain, Italy and France.
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Échappées belles: Montana, Le pays du grand ciel (2013)
A nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion in Montana: beautiful landscapes and nice encunters.
There are some interesting aspects of Montana: the huge spaces and the wild nature (Bill McConnel and the survival training, the fisherwoman June Starky and the fly fishing, the rescue center fo grizzly bears near the Yellowstone Park-Dan Meat and the educational work about the importance of no feeding the grizzly-) , thghe fossils and bones of dinosaurs (the paleontologist David Trexler and the geologist Gary Coverdell, the reconstitution of a dinosaur skeleton, the mystery of the disappearance of the dinosaurs), the powwow (the cultural moment of the American natives-dances and songs-the importance of their culture)., the gold rush in Montana ( the ranger Allan and the gold miners village, the growth of Butte, in 1864 Montana becomes territory and a little later state of the Union), the classic car collectors and the demolition derbies in Montana and the world of rodeos (the clown Davis Bert, the life of the cowboys, the hatter John Morris Jr and the making of cowboy hats, the lasso champion Justin).
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie with the singer David Walburn, with the helicopter pilot Jim Kruger, with the guide Denny Gignoux , with the artist Darell Norman, with Trace Wellman and Darrel Kipp at Browning, with the fisherman and sculptor Eric Thorsen at Bigfork, with the student Alyana Sherkas and the cheerleader coach Jenny at Missoula, with the guide and Story teller John at Bannack State Park, with Jimmy Garrison, Cheyenne Garrison and with the hatter Harry at Dillon:; nice encounters with very nice Montanan men and women.
Échappées belles: La vallée de la Maurienne (2015)
A very nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion in the vallée de la Maurienne: beautiful snowy landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this region: the wnter and summer jobs ( Lionel is ski intructor and manages a sports store in winer and works as bricklayer in the summer, his Loris want to become a "pisteur-secouriste" and studies at the "Lycée Saint-Michel de Maurienne the house building and wants also to become a mountain guide for the summer season, Axel who studies in the Lycée wants to become a freestyle skier), the family resort of "Les Karellis " (the commune and the associations manage this resort created by Pierre Lainé in 1973, the facilities for handicape persons), the winter sports ( at Bettans the practice of the luges in the snowy streets of the villages, in Bramans the practice of bobsleigh on the frozen roads, the Xbikes and the speed riding (acrobatic skiing with a paraglider), the road tunnel of Fréjus between France and Italy inaugurated in 1980, the French of Modane nd the building of the railways tunnel in 1870, the growth of the town , the laboratory in the center of the road tunnel (the physicist Ali and the particle physics), the sabbatical year of an Australian family in Lans-le-Bourg, the winter sports, the school year at the Collège de la Vanoise in Modane, the learning of the French language), and the "Grande Odyssée Savoie-Mont-Blanc created by the musher and explorer Nicolas Vanier in 2005 , the departure from Lans-le-Bourg to the Col du Mont Cenis-60 kilometers- the bivouac of the mushers and the dogs after the stage).
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie with the sisters Magali and Emeline Veille, with the chalet owner Brigitte and Jean-Marc, ith Claude Guillot at the hamlet of Écot, with Corentin Cimaz (the game of the mourra), , with the ski tracks manager Dominique Petit and Erika Rozas at Val Cenis Vanoise, with the ski instructor and freestyle kier Max Vince, with the mailman Georges Cecillon alias Jojo at Bessans and with Daniel Gaïnetdinoff,- the commentator of the "Grande Odysée Savoie-Mont-Blanc with David Favre and the guests of Daniel for the traditional meeting of mamies in Bramans; nice encounters with very kind French men and women.
Échappées belles: Vercors, le paradis blanc (2013)
An interesting and nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion in the Vercors: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this region: the winter in the Vercors (Vincent and José and the mountain refuge of "La Molière", Vincent is also photographer, later Béatrice Ardet-the Salle "L'Anecdote" at Autrans and the choir singin, many cultural activities in these mountains), the forest of the Vercors (the forests belonging to the communes and to private owners, Gérard-the lumberjack and mayor of Corrençon-,the selection of trees to fell, his son John-the carpenter and wooden houses builder, the family hotel-a masterpiece of carpentry-), the life in the villages near Grenoble (the work in the town and the life in the village of Lans-en-Vercors, Jérôme Narcy-the photographer and blogger-, the couple of Fabienne-the infographist and Pasang-the cook- , the Nepali food in the restaurant), the biathlon athletes in the Vercors (Julie Gleizes and her study at the college of Villard-de-Lans-, Claire Breton-member of the French national team and living in Corrençon), the opening up of the Vercors (the road construction in the 18th century , the maintenance of the roads with snow plows, the cooperative of the milk producers and the 4x4 lorry for the milk collection) and the hiking in the Vercors (Théo Sanson and the snow shoes walk and the slack line in the mountain).
I enjoyed the encounters of Jérôme with the mountain guide in the Massif des Coulmes, with Jean Lambert and Claude Gaillard at Corrençon, with Lydya and Berard Chabert at the Auberge of Malaterre, with Pierre-Antoine Simonneau and Alice Chabert at Villard-de-Lans, with Stéphane Guillot-Diat-the hockey player, with Angélique Doucet and Gilles Dacier-Faloue at Chatelus, with Jean-Luc Odeyer at Saint-Laurent-en-Royans with Laurent and Marlène Garnier at the Cave of Chorange and with the musher Erwan Mairy at the Camp Vanier; nice encounters with very kind French men and women.
Meurtres à...: Meurtres à Cayenne (2020)
A pleasant criminal investigation.
The police captain Cassandra Molba and the lieutenant Antoine Lagarde are in charge of the investigation of the murder of Bertrand-throat slit and some scarifications-. This happened in the night of the loca carnival "Touloulou". They meet the widow Marguerite Thiego, then the associate Clément Marigny and Gérard Villalonga who were working with Bertrand. Then they learn through Gladys Ho Tang that Bertrand has a very close relationship with Ophélie Tinkali. The investigation becomes complicated because Marguerite Thiego has been attacked in one island and they managed to save her life.
I enjoyed the performances of Philippe Caroit, Nadège Beausson-Diagne, Anne Caillon, Alexis Tiouka, Rani Bheemuck, Stany Coppet Louis-Karim Nebati, Marielle Salmier, France Zobda and Serge Serge Abetucini.
Meurtres à...: Maddy Etcheban (2020)
A pleasant criminal investigation.
The corspe of the chef Céline Barenaga has been found by fishefrmen in the sea: suicide or murder. Maddy and his colleague meet then her husband Richard Barenaga who denies that he has killed his wife. Then the police finds the abandoned car of Céline and find the finger prints of Gaetan Burgo who has stolen the stolen the bag and the cell phonne of Céline, but the man has an alibi. Next suspect the cook Nicolas Petit who was making strange travels to Spain, but he has an alibi. Then Maddy learns that Céline had a love affair with the cattle beeder André Loyd and this will help her in the investigation.
I enjoyed the performances of Cristiana Reali, Arnaud Binard, Lorie Pester, Annie Gregorio, Clément Guénaire, Daniel Jo Lobé, François Feroleto, Jérémie Poppe, Victor meutelet, Charley Fouquet, Eric Savin, Sandrine Rigaux and Oscar Copp.
Échappées belles: Sologne, un concentré d'émotions (2013)
A very nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion in Sologne: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects: the landscapes of Sologne (the writer and photographer Pierre Aucante and Christophe Blanchard discovering the landscapes-forests, ponds, castles- frm a hot air balloon, the 3000 ponds of this region, the fish farming by the monks,now the fish farmers are working for fish restocking of other French rivers, the fish farmng menaced by the cormorants), the castles and estates of Sologne (Michel and Lydie and the restored "Chéteau d'Ortie, the guesthouse and the suppers with the hunters after the hunting with dogs, Bertrand d Marie-Laure and the "Domaine du Chêne", the old pedunculated oak, the restoration made by themselves and the guesthouse), the fauna of the Sologne (the professor and wildlife photographer Cyril Delorme and the.wildlife filmmaker Jean-Paul Grossin, the birds in the ponds, the red deers and doe in the forest), the hunting with dogs (the music of the hunting horn, the workshop of the hunting horn maker Francis at Blois, Laurent and the hunting dogs at the castle of Cheverny, the taxidermists Eric and Sébastien) and the castle of Chambord (the king François 1er and the building of the hunting lodge in Chambord, the mystery of the double -helix staircase, the graffiti of Victor Hugo).
I enjoyed the encounters of Jérôme with Jean-Philippe Van Lauwe (the boat tour on the Loire River), with the fisherman Brunos Gabris (the fishing and the fish eating), with the naturalist Vincent and the snails producer Nicolas), with Adrian , Alexandre and Cyril (the hunting with dogs), with Rodolphe Delord at the Zooparc of Beauval, with the female wine maker Laura Semeria at Cheverny, with the pilot Philippe Raton (the flight from Blois to Chambord)and with the forester Jacques Lefebvre at the Park of the castle of Chambord; nice encounters with very kind French men and women.
Échappées belles: Les couleurs de la Sologne (2019)
An interesting and nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion in Sologne: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of the region: the forests of Sologne (about 500.000 hectares of forests, the hiking paths- Pierre-Etienne and Raymond and the Association "Les Amis des chemins de Sologne"-, Nathalie and the children playing in the forest, Philippe and the Association "L'appel des forêts"-the walk in the forests, the edible plants, the pleasure of living in the nature-), the castles of the Sologne (Lancelot Guyot and the rescue of abandoned castles, the Castle of La Ferté-Saint Aubin,the 60.000 visitors each year, Xavier and Sandrine and the restoration of the "Château de la Morinière"- the "Chantier de formation"), the gliding in Sologne ( the airport of Romorantin, Léa-the young glider pilot and her instructor Philippe-. The French Air Force, the future pilots learning gliding), the birds in the ponds of Sologne ( Angélique and the recount of birds -the famous grey heron, the eared grebe-, the painter Marie-Joëlle and the huge fresco with the landscapes of Sologne-the grey heron-, the wildlife photographer Alexandre and the pictures of the birds), the antique cars collectors (Alexandre and Laurence and the Rallye des Toques de Sologne", the pleasure to drive old cars through the beautiful landscapes of Sologne) and the flea market at the castle of Chambord (the 500 authorized antique owners, the bargain hunters, the high quality of the objects, the 30.000 visitors each year).
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie with Nils Aucante , with Nicolas Saint-Ouen, with Achille de Sparre, with the chef Hélène Tubach, with the baker Claude François, with Nadège at Romecrot Farm, with Sandrine Sanchez at Cerdon, with Gwendoline Daragon, with Hélène Mrchisset , Vincent Aldebert and Maxime Longeaux at Saint-Dyé, with the fish farmer Vincent Hennequart, with Christelle and Freddo at Chambord; nice encounters with very kind French men and women.
In Wahrheit: Unter Wasser (2022)
An interesting criminal case.
The corpse of the police office René schubecker has been found in a river -a bullet in his chest- .When Judith and Freddy investigate the desk of their colleague they notice that the recorder of René is missing -René used to record ¡his cases on this recorder, but they fing a picture of Corinne Tolbert, a young French girl who has been found dead. Immediately they remember that Willy Foss was accused for this crime and spent 13 years in jail. So they pay a visit to Willy Foss who claims that he is iinocent. Then Judith travels to Koenigsmark to know more about the criminal investigation of the murder of Corinne Toilbert and discovers strange things.
I enjoyed the performances of Christina Hecke, Robin Sondermann, Jeanne Goursaud, Rudolf Kowalsi, Andreas Anke, Robert Schupp, Pascal Houdus and Florien Anderer.
Échappées belles: Les trésors du Périgord (2011)
A very inteteresting and nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion in the Périgord: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this region: the 4 stars camping site "Sur les Plages" near Vitrac (the manager Anne and the seasonal worker Matthieu and Manon, the Dordogne river, the swimming pool, the English, Dutch and French vacationers and the karakoe moment), the Périgord truffles ( Edouard and Carole Aynaud at Péchalifour, how to look for truffles-the truffle dogs-, the finnding of a summer truffle, the cooking workshop and the tasting of truffles), the duck farm and the guesthouse of the Gonzales family ( the breeding of ducks and the making of duck products-magret de canard and foie gras-, the lodging in the gypsy caravan and wooden cabins), the Occitan language ( the female singers group "La Mal Coiffée", the "Félibrée" festival at Belvès, Martial Peyrouni and his Occitan spoken radio program, the accordionists and the folk dances, the concert in Occitan language), the Château des Milandes ( the actual owner Angélique de Saint-Exupéry,the stay of Joséphine Baker from 1937 to 1968-the adoption of 12 children, Akio Bouillon-Baker visiting where he lived as child-, now the restoration of the roof and the making of new gardens) ,the Cave and the Alaskan shamans (Hubert de Commarque, the parietal art-a horse painting- in the cave under the castle, the story of the restoration of the castle) and the prehistorical archeological site of Castel Merle (the archaelogists Randall White and Romain Mensan, the looking for silex and bones).
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie with the helicopter pilot Jean Max, with with Katia Veyret at Sarlat, with Alain Frances at the "Gouffre de Proumeyssac, with Pierre Chasmoukine at Gorodka, with BernardColombie and Muriel Mussard at La Roque-Gagéac, with Jean-Marc Audit at the Cabanes du Breuil, with the guide Philippe Colomy and the gold digger Alain Viguier at the Vézère river, with Adeline and Firmin Boudy at Montignac, with the guard Bruno Desplat at the Lascaux Cave, with Yves Martin and Francis Ringenbach at Lascaux 2 ; nice encounters with very kind French men and women.
In Wahrheit: Jagdfieber (2020)
A dramatic story.
Julia Collmann, the spouse of the doctor André Collmann has been killed by an attacker using a hunting rifle. Later the police shows a video in which Wolfgamng Abeck has kidnapped Robert Haffner and asked for a new criminal investigation and trial because André Collmann and Robert have been involved in the death of his daughter Nadine. Besides Judith and Freddy speak with Tanja Abeck about her last contact with her sister Nadine and at the same time they learn that a person of Metz was missing.
I enjoyed the performances of Christina Hecke, Robin Sondermann, Jeanne Goursaud, Rudolf Kowalski Joachim Król, Barbara Prakopenka, Tristian Seith, David Rott and Jean-Yves Berteloot.
Échappées belles: Magie blanche dans le Jura suisse (2018)
A nice journey.
I enjoyed very much this excursion in the Swiss Jura: beautiful snowy landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of the region: the connection of the people with the nature (the geobiologist Joëlle, the childhood in the nature, the menhirs of Clendy- 45 statues near the Neuchâtel lake-, Julien and his walks in the forest, the "Salamandre" magazine, the great egret in the nature reserve of Fanel, the protection of the nature), the watchmaking at La Chaux-de-Fonds, the Golden Bridge watch of the Corum Company, the enamaler Vanessa Lecci, the watch as work of art, the architect Denis Clerc and the architecture in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the "Ancien Manège" built in 1868, the workshops of the watchmakers) , La Brévine-the Siberia of Switzerland- ( Martine Rebetez and the monitoring of the climate, Jean-Claude and the building of an igloo and the eating of a fondue, Jean-Pierre Schneider and the maintenance of the cross-country skiing tracks, the good place of the cross-country skiing) , the people and their animals ( Evelyne Gaze and the roller dog sledges-therapeutical use of the dogs-, Adrien Catin and his horse and carriage tours, Christian Lecomte and the breeding of American bisons- the forest cabins and the tasting of bison meat-) , the chocolatiers ( Valérie and the making of chocolate with flowers and herbs-wild thyme-, the delivery to her daughter Maude-the Bar à chocolat "Crème renversante" and the laces on the chocolates, the story of Philippe Suchard, Catherine and her chocolate workshops-the risotto with white chocolate, the chocolate with dried Boletus-) and the story of the absinthe in the Val de Travers, (Philippe Martin and the making of absinthe with common wormwood, anise and fennel, François Bezençon and the Musée "Père François", the prohibition from 1910 to 2005, Philippe and his friends tasting absinthe, the ceramist Patricia and the "fontaines à absinthe").
I enjoyd the encounters of Sophie with the photographer Jean-François Robert, with the biplane pilot Patrick Guern, with the female guide of the Maison Blanche, with the cheese maker Pierre-Alain Sterchi, with the train conducter Olivier Luder, with the model train maker Alan Stocker, with the musher Caroline Clerc and Morgan Clerc, with Marlène Pini and Gérard Balanche, with Vincent Steuder and Sébastien Bilquez in Neuchâtel, with Claude Delley and his son at Portalban, with the chef Béat Keusen, with Damaris Lauper and Claudia Burri at Bern and with Annelise Cavin at Yverdon-les-Bains; nice encounters with very kind Swiss men and women.
Échappées belles: Week-end à Rouen (2020)
A nice excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion in Rouen, a place with great historical, cultural and economical life.
There are som some interesting aspects of Rouen and its region: the discovery of the town through dynamic activities ( the comedian Hervé Goubert and his character Jacques de Valambry walking through the town, the associative restaurant of "La Cantine", the Association "Guidoline"-Timothée and the "Atelier de Auto-rération de vélos", 1200 members-, the Panorama on the bamks of the Seine River built in 2014- the pictures of the Rouen cathedral when Claude Monet was painting it-, the medicine interns living on a barge and the sculpures on the forest), the Rouen Cathedral (the sacristan Didier taking care for the candles, the Archbishop Lebrun talking about the role of the volunteers and visitors, the guide Sophie and the visit of the crypt, the restoration works in one of the spires, in the statues and in the great organ, Patrice Latour and the carillon of the cathedral), the antique shops and the flea market of Rouen ( the rue "Eau de Robec" called also "Rue des Antiquaires", the antique shop owner Bruno- the modern trade by internet-, Stéphanie and the "Brocante Jacotte and Gavotte", the flea market at St-Marc square, Philippe bbuying a lamp for his flea market at Morgny) , the medieval and Viking past (the statue of the Viking chief Rollon,first count of Normandy, Gwenahel and the Association "Les Enfants de Rollon", Jimmy Didier of the Association "Vegvisir" and the medieval history student Valentin speaking of the Viking culture, the enigma game at the Dungeoin of Jeanne-D'Arc organized by Gaëtan Perreau), the Grande Armada (the sailboat exhibition on the banks of the Seine, Sabine and Colombine will participe as mariners on the "Hermione" in the Grande Parade, the navigation to Brest and Rochefort) and the port of Rouen and the navigation on the Seine River ( Rouen as the second cereal port of Europe, the touristic cruiser "Botticelli- the captain Xavier Wattiau and the German tourists-, the Musée Maritime de Rouen, the marina for the sailboats-Erwan living on his sailboat, Tony, the English vacationer who will join Greece, Martial who is preparation his world tour).
I enjoyed the encounters of Jérôme with the boatman Nicolas Guyaud, with the head gardener Jen-Mrie Avisrd at Roche-Guyon, with Laurence Catel at Rouen and at the cliff of Romilly-sur-Andelle, with the chocolatier Jean-Marie Auzou at Rouen, with Loïc Patin at Jumièges , with the chef Christophe Mauduit, with Nicolas, the owner of the Duclair Castle, with the stone cutter Philippe Dumas , with Camille and Valentin at the Cabane à Milo and with Christophe Van der Cruyssen at the cliff climbing; nice encounters with very kind French men and women.
Échappées belles: La Vallée de la Roya (2021)
A very interesting excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excurion in the Valley of the Roya: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of the region: the portraits of the villagers on the viaduct of Tende (the photographer Géraldine and Estelle speaking about the tenacity and the courage of these villagers who have stayed in the village) , th Italian culture in the valley (people coming from the Piedmont, some communes became French in 1947, the guide Annie showing her village to te visitors, the two chapels and the two groups of "pénitents"-secular people helping to deprived people-), the importance of the associations of volunteers (Martial Lyonnais and the volunteers cleaning an unnderground water canal obstructed by sand and stones after the storm Alex, Fabrice Roy and the volunteers installing 1000 meters of new water pipes for the house of his parents), the Roya's Sisters ( Julia, Charlie, Diane and Pauline, the hiking guide Charlie and the walk in the National Park of Mercantour, the 4000 years old petroglyphs, the guesthose manager Pauline, the welness practitioner Diane, the cooking workshop- the tourteaux or pies, the local vegetables and aromatic plants), Breil-sur-Roya ( Denis and the Ecomusée du Train des Merveilles-the model trains-, the railway track for Nice to Cuneo built in 1928-90 bridges and 105 tunnels, thge travel in the Train des Merveilles with the guide Lucie, the great help of the trains after the storm Alex), the green transports in the valley (François and Pul and their mountain bike, the sharing of letric bike at Morignole, the new experimentation hydrogen bikes) and the National Park of Mercantour (the great biodiversity-the chamois and the Alpine ibex-, the "Refuge des Merveilles", the hikers, Yann and Aude in charge of the refuge, the volunteers, the shepherd Alan and his "Brigasque" sheep).
I enjoyed the encounters of Ismaël with Camille Aupois , Solange and Damien Beranger at Tende, with Patrick Teisseire, Barthélemy Lanteri and Baptiste at La Brigue, with Nathalie, Rémy and Naïs Masseglia, Rafael Pilares, Serge and Murielle and Alain Brunelli at Breil-Sur-Roya; nice encounters with very kind French men and women.
Échappées belles: Le Périgord en quatre couleurs (2013)
A nice excursion in the Périgord.
I enjoyed very much this excursion in the Périgord en quatre couleurs: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this region: the gastronomy of the Périgord ( the famous smoked magret filled with foie gras, the "cul noir" pig of the Périgord, Pierre-Yves Théaud and the rescue of this pig breed, the delicious bacon, his wife Régine and the making of black pudding, Jean-Pierre and his oven and mill-the making of walnut oil-), the truffles of the Périgord (the truffle hunter Jacques Mathieu and his dog looking for truffles in the plantation of oak trees and hazelnut trees, the first controlled market of truffles at Saint-Albert, the "commissaire qualité" Marie-France, the 34 kilograms of truffles sold within some minutes), the British newcomers at Eymet (the British citizens are the 15 % of the global population of the village, Lynne who has bought a house and a garden and manages a guesthouse, the house painter Michael and his son Tyke who practices soccer with the friends of the village,Tim who came as agricultural worker and now is wine maker with 4 hectares of vineyard), the grotto of Villars (the discovery in 1953, the cave paintings), the speleologist Frederick Viales and the discovery of new caves (there are now 5901 registered cave in the Dordogne department), the Dhagpo Kagyu Ling Buddhist center at Saint-Léon-.sur-Vézère ( the opening of the center in 1974 with the arrival of Tibetan monks, Jean-Guy,the president of the center, the place open to all people who enjoy a moment of meditation,the arrival of newcomers) and Antoine de Tounens, king of Araucania and Patagonia (the writer François Gareye telling the story of Antoine de Tounens-the explorer who became great chief of the Mapuches-, Philippe Boiry, the Prince of Araucania-from 1951 to 2014- and the fight for the right of the Mapuches).
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie with Valérie Gautherot and Eric Simonin at Brantôme, with Michel and Jean-Michel at Périgueux, with the manager of the guinguette Eric also in Périgueux, with with Olivier Roux and his family at the Moulin de la Jarousse, with the gardener Norbert at Terrasson, with Bernadette and Pamela at Bergerac, with Jacques Guyot, Catherine Guyot and and her daughter Alice at the Bridoire castle; nice encounters with very kind French men and women.
Échappées belles: Jura grandeur nature (2024)
A very interesting excursion.
I enjoyed very much this excursion through the Jura: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There some interesting aspects of this region: the wildlife photographer Julien Arbez (the walk in the forest-the badger burrow-, the photo workshop with the children-the stoart in the meadow or the mushrooms in the forest), the biathlon athlete Quentin Fillon Maillet (the 5 medals at the Olympic Games of Beijing, his trainer Nicolas Chouard, his official photographer Marika Godin), the Mont d'Or cheese (Agnès and Jean-François cutting straps of the spruce, the "Fromagerie Mont d'Or", the strapping of the cheeses, the culinary photographer Claudia and the promotion of the local products), the wooden toys (the Vilac company and the making of toys with beech wood, the woodcarver Bruno Thomas and the making of wooden games for children and adults, the caretaker Elodie and the therapeutic virtues of these wooden games),the village of La Pesse (the school teacher Coline Antoni and the teaching in the nature, Arnaud, Pierre and Paul restoring an old farm), the mountain refuge of Berbois (Olivier and Laurence beginning a new life, the retired doctor Catherine, the revival of the village-20 inhabitants during all the year), the forests of the Jura ( Baptiste Cordenoid and the "Accros de Cimes", the climbing and the measure of the height of a fire tree-they are looking or the extraordinary trees of Jura-, the forester Matthieu Perrez and the monitoring of the bark beetles, the Sécherie de la Joux and the processing of tree seeds).
I enjoyed the encounters of Jérôme with Célia Bourgeois (Les Cascades du Hérisson", La Ligne des Hirondelles, Les Rousses, Morbier) with Denis Camelin Gérard Bailly-Salins at the Church of Morbier), with Célia husband Damin Fleury, with Jean-Charles Arnaud at the Fort des Rousses, with Bernard Arbez, the prince of Arbezie, with Bérénice Salino-the manager and head of the Arbezie restaurant-, with the wine maker Clémentine Baud and her family in Arbois, with Gilles at the Parc Polaire near Mouthe, with Nicolas Clemendot and Emilie Cuissard (the botanical hiking at the Pierre Enon) and with Célia's daughter at Les Rousses-the championship of cross country skiing U-15 ); nice encounters with very kind French men and women.
Échappées belles: Sur les sentiers varois (2022)
Beautiful landscapes.
I enjoyd very much this journey on the hiking trails of Var: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this regions: the hiking trail of Var (the trail running at the Mont Faron near Toulon, the hiking excursions with Yannick), the underwater trails (the archaeological site of Olbia and the other 12 underwter trails in the Var littoral), the sport of the longe-côte at Hyères, the beaches of the littoral (La Plage de l?espagnol, the camping site of Bormes-les-Mimosas), the erbalist Vera Schutz and the chef Benoit Witz (the picking of aromatic plants, the botanical walks and the tasting of vegetables and aromatic plants), the forest fires in the Var (the forest fire prevention, Rodolphe at the observation towe of Monjean, the huge forest fire in 2017) , the Alter-Tour (the cyclists on the trails of Var) and the Canyon du Verdon (William Michel-the jumping into the Verdon river, the swimming in the river, the guide Laurent and the looking at the griffon vultures).
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie with Thibaud Vion and Candice in Sint-Raphaël, with André and Angélique at Cavalaire-sur-mer, with Lenny the guide at the Domaine dyu Rayol, with Carole d'Antuoni in the nauture reserve of the Sainte-Baume, with Gaëtan Ayache the ornothologist, with Grégory Dron, the forester, with the father Patrick-Marie at the grotto, with the nature guide Geoffrey Gillet and Gérad Brun at the Rocher de Roquebrune; nice encounters with very king¡d French men and women.
In Wahrheit: Still ruht der See (2019)
A complicated criminal investigation.
The corpse of the young Marlon Brandmann has been found by his own mother at the lake (a hit on the head and some bruises on his arms). Judith and Freddy meet near the crime scene some young men and women: especially the young called Nummer Six and the girl called Nesrin. They pay a visit to Lukas who doesn't know anything about the bruises of Marlon. Bak to the hot neighborhood and investigation about Sharif and his friends: their alibi are confirmed), nevertheless Judith and Freddy discover the sneakers black market. And the bruises ? Who did beat Marlon ?
The performances of Christina Hecke, Robin Sondermann, Rudolf Koalski, Jeanne Goursaud, Devrim Lingnau, Matti Schmidt-Schaller, Rafael Gareisen, Karim Günes, Antonio Wannek, Bernadette Heerwagen and Gerdy Zint are good.
Meurtres à...: Meurtres en Martinique (2016)
An interesting murder investigation.
As soon as she arrives at Martinique the police captain Léna Valrose goes with the captain Paul Ventura to the Mount Pelée where a corpse has been found in a lanslide: a female corpse with only some sports clothes. On the next the medical examine confirms that the young has been strangulated, the soil they found lime and potassium chlorate, her name was Céline Rosier. The father of the Célie is very angry about the murder of his daughter. Léna and Paul pay a visit to Théo, the strange man with the opera music,they arrest him but he manages to escape from the police. Nex clue: Céline has participated in the Miss Saint Pierre beauty pageant organized by Boris Darcheville and besides Jocelyn , the son of the police commisssoner Brédas has seen Céline before her her death. The investigation becomes complicated because Joclyn has disappeared.
An interesting investigation with a touch of supense : I enjoyed the performances of Olivier Marchal, Sara Martins, Franc Zobda, Philippe Lavil, Eric Delor, Luc Bernard, Gunther Germain Michel Chalonec, Sébastien Capgras and Murielle Degrelle.
Échappées belles: Echappée verte dans le Jura (2019)
Beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
I enjoyed very much this journey through the Jura: beautiful lanscapes (mountains, lakes, pastures, medievaltowns) and nice encounters.
Ther are some interesting aspects of this region: the hiking and equestrian trails ( the guide Lucas Humbert and the adolescents of Douai-the discovery of the nature, the ascent of the Crêt de Chalam-, Laurence Bourgeot and the Refuge of Berbois- the yurt , the teepe and the Asian cooking-, the 500 kilometers of equestrian trails and 20 guesthouses for the riders and their horses), the craftsmen and craftswomen (the illustrator Marine Egraz, the carpenter Mathisse Dalstein and the making of furniture, Gildas Bodet and the practice of making the traditional stone walls), the lake of Vouglans (Marie-Annick Messi and the breast cancer survivors called "Les Sirènes de Bellecin"-the practice of the rowing as an excellent recovery therapy-, Bruno the fishery guard and the swallowed "Chartreuse"), the forests of the Jura (the forester Cécile and the woodcutter Valère, the care for the young tree when cutting a tree, the "Lycée du Bois"-mainly sons of woodcutters and foresters-, the great opportunities of work after the study, Gaël Truche and the suspended table in the forest) , the castle of Chevreaux and the béhourd (Jacques Genest and the Association des Amis de Chevreaux, the volunteers in medieval costume, the mdieval games, Loïc Delval and the practice of the béhourd in the Jura) and the vineyards of Pupillin (the wine maker Julien Marechal, the tradition of the "Biou"-a huge grape prepared by the women, Anne-Laure Petit, the female wine maker, the procession with the Biou to the church and the "vin d'honneur" at the end of the ceremony).
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie with the paragliding coach Erin Chauvin, with the fireman Fred Wauquier and the cheese maker Marc Janin in Champagnole, with Marie and Mathieu Vassal at Salins-les-Bains, with Gilles Moyne of the Athénas Association, with the biathlon champion Anaïs Bescond at Prémanon and Les Rousses, with Jean-Claude Masson (La Ligne des Hirondelles and Poligny), with Jean-Christophe at Poligny also,with the chef Joël Cesari at Dole and with Rachel Roussel-Voisard (the farm of the poulardes); nice encounters with very kind French men and women.
Meurtres à...: Meurtres en Guadeloupe (2023)
A pleasant criminal investigation.
Christian Rivière, the owner of a biomass factory has been murdered by poisoning and his corpse was covered with bird feathers. The police chief Auguste Célestin asks the retired police commissioner Jean-Baptiste Lonteau to manage the investigation with Télumée Magloire who recently came back to the Guadeloupe: some moments of mutual teasing at the beginning. Back to the investigation, a first clue: Stéphane Cairo, the farmer had some troubles with the victim about water supply,but he can not bee the murder,Then the corpse of Maris-Agnés Dragouvin is found covered with cane fibers at the Soufrière -also a cas of poisoning-. The investigation goes very slowly and little by little we enter into the secrets of the Rivière family : Jean-Baptiste remembers when he was a student of Violette and pays a visit to Violette, in a room Jean-Baptiste and Télumée find a painting made by Violette.
I enjoyed the performances of Bernard Yerlès, Clair, Greg Germain, France Zogba, Laurence Joseph, Sébastien Capgras, Marie-Christine Barrault, Ocene Gomez, Shirley Bousquet and Alix Serment.
Meurtres à...: Meurtres à Font-Romeu (2023)
A pleasant investigation .
The gendarmerie lieutenant Thomas Errelbaz and the young Julie Delpech are in charge of the criminal investigation of the murder of the father Baptiste in Font Romeu. The investigation begins with Christine Orthiz, the manager of the sports training center-there were many phone calls between Christine and the father- and with the sister Marie-Rose, a collaborator of the father. Suddenly Christine Orthiz disappears and is found dead and also mutilated and the team knows that some years ago a nun has been pregnant.
I enjoyed the performances of Béatrice de la Boulaye, Stéphane Hénon, Karim Belkhadra, Carine Ribert, Anne Loiret, Mathilde Cerf, Eric Savin , Marie-Philomène Nga and Aladin Reibel.
Crime dans l'Hérault (2019)
A pleasant criminal investigation.
Natacha Fournier, the manager of a night club has been killed . The deputy attorney Elisabeth Richard and the gendarmerie captain Charles Jouanic are in charge of the case. Some days later Michel Lafitte, the manager of a camping site is also killed with same modus operandi -a heart attack and fox mask-and finally a oyster farmer is also killed with the same modus oprandi -the heart attack and the fox mask-. First suspect Gérad Vignal who was in the discotheque this night, but he has an alibi, then Franck Valbone who is very angry about the murder of Natacha Fournier. Other important character, Paul Grimaldi who had very close relationship with Natacha. Then Elisabeth And Charles find another clue: the youth shelter and a prostitution network.
I enjoyed the performances of Florence Pernel, Guillaume Cramoisan, Lola Dewaere, Catherine Demaiffe, Bonnafet Tarbouriech, Audrey Looten, Julien Bravo and Lolita Chammah.
Échappées belles: Le Pays basque, de village en village (2021)
A nice journey.
I enjoyed very much this journey through the Pays basque: beautiful landscapes and nice encounters.
There are some interesting aspects of this region: the espelette pepper, the typical Basque houses and the Basque pelota ( the farmers Panpi and Leire, the harvest and the braiding of the peppers, about 200 producers in 10 communes-the Appelation d'origine protégée-, the half timbered houses with their red shutters called "Etxe", the elder son or daughter is in charge of the family house, the playing of Basque pelota in the center of each village), the Camino de Santiago (Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, 60.000 pilgrims every year, the Association des amis du chemin de Saint-Jacques, Lionel, the volunteer and also pilgrim, Sébastien the traveling grocer who sells sheeep cheeese and other food to the pilgrims, Nathalie and the camping at the farm since 1979), the Basque Force ( the practice of sports like lifting weights or tug-of-war), the Vallée des Aldudes (about 1000 inhabitants in three villages, the newcomers, Jeovanna-the Peruvian woman-, Amandine-the Belgian woman-, Marie from the French Brittany, Jean-Yves who works in the "Séchoir de la Vallée des Aldudes", Maïka who manages the bar of Aldudes), the port of Ciboure and the bluefin tuna fishing (Didier, the captain of the fishing boat, the angling is allowed from July to October, Michel the cannery of Ciboure, the chef Nicolas and the Japanese cook Tomo preparing bluefin tuna-thon rouge in French-) and the Vallée de la Soule (the return of children to their home villages, Maya an Dimitri and the butchery of Muléon, Graxiana-the dairywoman),.
I enjoyed the encounters of Sophie with Flora Le Pape, Pierre Dospital, Clément Guillemot and Stéphane Michelena at Espelette, with Liza Bergara and Xabi Retgui at Larressore, with Claire Lohiague at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, with Xabi Behoteguy at the Rhune, with Jean-Michel Cabos at Guéthary, with the speleologist Jean-François Godart at the Grotto of the Verna and Alain Saldumbide, Maritxu Housset-Chapelet and Iban Salumbide at Itxassou; nice encounters with very kind Basque men and women.
Meurtres à...: Meurtres aux îles de Lérins (2023)
An interesting and nice criminal investigation.
An interesting investigation case: the film producer Christophe Beaumont has been killed in the fort of the island of Sainte-Marguerite-Lérins islands near Cannes- and besides two sisters Laure and Manon Castaldi who work in the French police are investigating the case-some moments of tense relationship because Laure has also a tense relationship with her father Bruno Castaldi. We discover the characters of Antoine Chevalier,-the film director and of Anne Beaumont, the spouse and financial manager of Christophe. Then comes the character of Paul Ferrand,the associate of Christophe. Then there is new clue: the mysterious woman in a picture and the documents of a house:
in this house Manon and Laure finds the corpse of a woman who has been strangulated 20 years ago.
A very interesting case of investigation about the past of Christoph Beaumont.
I enjoyed the performances of Ophélia Kolb, Paulin Bression, Éva Darlan, Robinson Stévenin, Jean-Michel Noirey, Éric Pucheu, Bambo da Silv, Aurélien Vacher, Patrick Rocca, Suzie Pilloux, Serge Riaboukine, Vincent Garanger and Grégory Nardela.
Dans l'ombre des dunes (2022)
An interesting criminal investigation.
The police officer Becker has come back to the Landes to save his relationship with his wife Julie and his children Léo and Camille. His mother-in-law Evelyn proposes him to make the criminal investigation of a murder: Babar has ben tortured and asphyxied. Becker will work with the young gendarme Damien. First clue: the ecologist Angèle Duval who has had some troubles with Babar. Some days later Seb, a plumber, is found dead in a wine tank-also death by suffocation-. Babar, Seb and Nicolas were friends, Becker goes to the cabin of Nicolas, the door is open, a man is salting from te balcony, Becker manages to save the life of Nicolas who was tied,but can not catch the attacker. Nicolas is sent to the hospital. Second clue : the picture of Julie and another woman. The woman is Aurélie Badet who has been humiliated in the past by Nicolas, Babar and Seb, but the woman lives now in Canada. Then what terrible did do Nicolas, Seb and Babar in the past ?
But soon Becker and Damien are involved in a shooting between Laborde and his friends and Angèle Duval.
I enjoyed the performances of Bruno Salomone, Mickaël Lumière, Erika Sainte, Guillaume Faure, François Bureloup, Nicole Calfan, Mélanie Robert, Simon Cuin, Margot Dufrene, Elsa Fargue and Pierre-Marie Mosconi.