L'ami de mon amie was filmed in the French new town of Cergy-Pontoise. The town, created in the 1970s, features numerous municipal buildings in distinctive forms and novel colours. Scenes in the town's centre promote the numerous shops, restaurants and amenities that populate the space as well as showcasing the striking clock that acts as a focal point in the shopping thoroughfare. The post-modern housing complex, Belvédère Saint Christophe by renowned Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill, prominently features as the apartment building of our protagonist. Like with many of Rohmer's films, architecture becomes a character in itself, framing and reflecting the characters that inhabit his films. Like in his previous work, Les nuits de la pleine lune (1984), Rohmer's modern landscape mirrors his modern characters.
Production Design: Sophie Mantigneux
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