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The Underground Station

posted 14 years ago by Eumenides_0
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For anyone who's seen Cold Cuts, do you think the underground station in Wenders' movie is the same station used at the beginning of Bertrand Blier's movie, as Gérard Depardieu has that awkward conversation with a commuter?

I could swear they look just the same, with the red chairs and the neons saying La Defense.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

[–] boileau 11 years ago

If I remember correctly a scene takes place in the station "Etoile", now "Charles de Gaulle - étoile" on the RER line A.
The stations may look similar as they both were built in the early seventies.
A few years earlier, the trains terminated at Saint-Lazare station.
If you go westward, "la Défense" is the next station after "Etoile".

As you may guess, I am a Parisian commuter.