Barge trip with Bruno Podalydès: “Every morning, after a comfortable night, a different landscape opens up before us”
Interview The actor and director rowed a kayak in "Comme un avion" and piloted a barge in "La Petite Vadrouille." He wrote the preface to the guide "Voyager au fil de l'eau." Advice and anecdotes from a contemplative freshwater sailor.
Interview by Stephanie Condis
The crew and passengers of "La Petite Vadrouille" (2024). From left to right: Sandrine Kiberlain, Bruno Podalydès, Denis Podalydès, Daniel Auteuil, Florence Muller and Dimitri Doré (bottom). LUCA FERRANTE/SEE YOU
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You begin your preface to "Traveling by Water. Itineraries on a Pénichette" (Gallimard) with this sentence: "I've always loved boats; I would have liked to be a sailor." How did you discover river navigation?Bruno Podalydès A little over twenty years ago, when I made "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" in Corbigny, Burgundy, I saw some barges on the Canal du Nivernais and I thought they were adorable. I then took my family on board, and my children loved it. We also went to the Canal du Midi, the Burgundy Canal, to the Camargue... We go back every two or three years, generally for a week, because a weekend is...
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