Citroën Dispatched To The Movies For Wes Anderson With A Very French H Van

There’s a new film out where the star is a Citroën H van, and it’s by Wes Anderson too. Ok, I may have stretched it a little bit, but there’s no doubt that the commercial vehicle plays an enormous part.

This movie is a collection of stories from the last issue of an American magazine published in a fictitious French town in the 20th Century.

To do this accurately it was necessary to feature a range of classic and historic French cars. The Type H Van being the leading vehicle and the film features the Traction Avant too. Plenty of other Citroëns are featured in the streets of the town, time to go classic spotting. See if you can find the 2 CV, Ami 6, GS and of course DS.

Director Wes Anderson; “The visual base of the film, the costumes, the sets, everything… it’s all informed by research. Even though it’s a kind of confection and it’s sort of invented stuff with a fantasy element to it, it is basically all grounded by reference.”

Citroën played a big part in this visual base, colabborating with Anderson who visited the conservatoire, Citroëns private collection, to identify which models would suite the story best. The main choices being the Traction and Type H.