W.E. filming
locations (2011)

Riviera Locations: Rue de l'Eglise, Villefranche-sur-Mer

Director : Madonna
Cast :  Abbie Cornish, James Darcy, Oscar Isaac
Genre : Historical Drama Runtime : 119 min Production year  2011 Rating : G

W.E. tells the story of two women separated by more than six decades. In 1998, lonely New Yorker Wally Winthrop is obsessed with King Edward's VIII's abdication of the British throne for the woman he loved, American divorcée Wallis Simpson. But Wally's research, including several visits to the Sotheby's auction of the Windsor Estate, reveals that the couple's life together was not as perfect as she thought On July 29, 2010, Madonna shot scenes with D'Arcy and Riseborough in Palm Beach in Marseille, south of France and on the port of Villefranche-sur-Mer on July 30, 2010