Film screening: The World According to Pierre Loti

As part of the ‘Un week-end bien loti’ festival, the Corderie Royale is screening Michel Viotte’s film, *Le Monde selon Pierre Loti*. The screening will be followed by a book-signing session.

Directed by Michel Viotte and co-written by Alain Quella-Villéger, this film draws on the writer’s words, combined with a rich collection of archive material. These documents are true treasures, rarely seen, which marked the early days of photography and travel and exploration cinema. Loti also embodies a “regional exoticism”, the result of his deep roots in the parts of France dear to him: his native Charente-Maritime, where the writer’s incredible house reopened to the public in the summer of 2025 after years of a titanic restoration project; and Brittany and the Basque Country, where he spent his final days.

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