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The Musée d Orsay and Stanley Kubrick: What Lupin is made of
The Marché aux Puces de St. Ouen, a flea market in Paris, June 30, 2013. The creator of the Netflix series Lupin shares the people, places, films and sounds that inspired him in crafting the heist show. Lauren Fleishman/The New York Times.
by Elisabeth Vincentelli
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Named after a character who does not even appear in it, the French show Lupin has seduced audiences with a stylish, light-footed combination of family drama, romance and high-stakes capers. At the center is the star Omar Sy (The Intouchables) as the affable trickster and heistmeister Assane Diop, whose role model is the fictional gentleman-thief Arsène Lupin an iconic figure in France invented by mystery writer Maurice Leblanc in 1905.
Lupin has made the French capital the certified hottest location on screen.
Led by Omar Sy as Assane Diop, a gentleman burglar devoted to 19th-century fictional thief Arsène Lupin, it’s a crime series in the vein of our own
Sherlock – equal parts action, character study and how-dunnit – that also makes the very best of its settings, both familiar and unknown. Here’s our guide to the key locations in the first set of five episodes.
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THE LOUVRE
The star location of Episode 1 is hard to miss: Assane’s first adventure is at the Louvre, where he stages a daring heist to steal a necklace that belonged to Marie-Antoinette. Filming took place in the galleries and the lobby beneath the IM Pei-designed Pyramid, and we see Delacroix’s