Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy in La Guérinière, Noirmoutier, Vendée (85)

Film directors Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy bought a derelict windmill in La Guérinière, L'ile de Noirmoutier, which they to some extent restored and where they spent their summers and Christmasses, sometimes hounded by paparazzi because of such guests as Cathérine Deneuve and Michel Legrand. The setting, right in front of the beach, is idyllic. There are four defunct windmills shown here, of which the first is the one which belonged to Varda and Demy. Apart from the last windmill, all shots are taken from the beachside. (A sail on Varda and Demy's mill is broken because it was hit by lightning.)