How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy Filming Locations
Where was How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy filmed? How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy was filmed in 1 locations across France in the following places:
How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy Filming Locations
Normandy is a region of northern France. Its varied coastline includes white-chalk cliffs and WWII beachheads, including Omaha Beach, site of the famous D-Day landing. Just off the coast, the rocky island of Mont-Saint-Michel is topped by a soaring Gothic abbey. The city of Rouen, dominated by Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen, is where military leader and Catholic saint Joan of Arc was executed in 1431.
How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy (2014)
In the year 2000, Les Blank, along with co-filmmaker Gina Leibrecht, visited Richard Leacock (1921-2011) at his farm in Normandy, France and recorded conversations with him about his life, his work, and his other passion: cooking! With the flair of a seasoned raconteur, Leacock recounts key moments in his seventy years as a filmmaker and the innovations that he, D.A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles and others invented that revolutionized documentary filmmaking, and explores the mystery of creativity. With the passing of both Blank and Leacock, the documentary is a moving insight into the lives of two seminal figures in the history of film.