“Bordel Organisé” for “Bandes Originales”, the B.O. came to flesh out the Cité du Cinéma in Saint Denis, an event that Luxsure couldn’t miss. The inauguration was a grand affair. Luc Besson and Vanessa Izerzer were sublime hosts. The audience was magnificent. The party was an organized mess. A debut on the scale of the B.O.
Opening onto the side of the central nave, the 80-seat dining room, combined with a 40-seat terrace, plays a score to the disproportion of the complex, to offer a paradoxically chic and intimate environment. “While maintaining a real chromatic sobriety, which for me is synonymous with elegance, the idea was to create a warm place where all cinema professionals could feel at home in their own decor.
Treat, relax, while keeping the senses awake and encounters possible.”Richard Letur Morel, who also designed the concept’s graphic identity, explains.
His staging softens the site’s industrial framework to produce a living-room atmosphere of uncluttered simplicity, where different scenarios of appropriation are offered. At the table, at the bar, around a table d’hôtes or on the deep sofas in the lounge, happy fews and B.O.tiful people are invited to come and canteen in a no-holds-barred mode.
To delight them, chef Marco Faujour offers a short menu that, like the decor, juxtaposes spontaneity and refinement. Special mention should be made of the favorites: “Poule de luxe” and “Dessert de sous la table”, presented alongside a cellar that opens up a dialogue between the exceptional and the tried and tested.
The play of contrasts is indeed a signature of this new haven of cinema.
Discreetly show-off, warmly “select” and authentically accessible, the B.O. embraces its contradictions, as any good soundtrack should.
The B.O.
Cité du Cinéma
20, rue Ampère, St Denis
T. +33 (0)7 86 07 49 43
By reservation only, Monday to Friday
9:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and evenings on Wednesday and Thursday
Indoor seating capacity: 80
Outdoor seating capacity: 40
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