I. The house
A family house in the Saint-James neighborhood
The house stands in the Saint-James quarter of Neuilly-sur-Seine, one of the most sought-after addresses on the edge of Paris. Behind a gate screened by dense planting, it extends over some 700 m² on three floors and a fully fitted basement, opening onto a south-facing walled garden of 2,000 m². A house of this scale, with this much land, is rare in Neuilly; there are only a handful like it.
The reception rooms are gathered on the first floor, opening directly onto the garden: a large drawing room, a living room, a winter garden and a kitchen opening onto the garden. A house designed for receiving, for gathering privately, for living as a family.
II. Michel Sardou
The years of a French singer
1999. For close to ten years, the house was the home of Michel Sardou, one of the most recognized voices in French song. He moved in at the turn of the 2000s with his wife, Anne-Marie Périer, whom he had married in 1999, the civil ceremony conducted by Nicolas Sarkozy, then mayor of Neuilly.
2004. It was in this house that Sardou wrote his gold-record album Du plaisir, released in 2004. The garden, its size, its privacy, its south-facing light, was what settled the choice. For a decade it held the family life of a performer who had spent his career on stage.
2011. Sardou sold the house and left Paris for the South of France. The memory of those years stays in the walls, quietly.
The house, behind the lens
Two French films were shot within these walls: Le Cousin (1997, Alain Corneau) and Un homme pressé (2018, Hervé Mimran). A discreet cinema memory that continues indoors, without any staging at all.
