Travel via Cinema! All of the most wanderlust-inducing movies shot on location in France, Italy, the Caribbean, Greece, Mexico, Spain, and Southeast Asia.
As wanderlust takes hold this socially distanced summer, it’s the eye that can travel—and not much else. While we’re searching for transportive experiences that are doable from home, nothing is so immersive as the on-location movie.
One of the first-ever films, after all, was centered on the idea of travel. Created by Auguste and Louis Lumière in 1895,, is a grainy, 50-second silent movie showcasing passengers disembarking from a locomotive train in the French coastal town of La Ciotat. Unremarkable to the modern eye, the film apparently had its 19th-century viewers racing away from the screen in fear of being pummeled by the projected train.
Luckily, film has progressed so that the world’s cinematic canon includes such works so ripe with scenery that we might as well be there. We think of the stunning shots of Capri’s architectural marvel Casa Malaparte in Jean-Luc Godard’s, the final Oaxacan beach scene of Alfonso Cuarón’s, and the Jamaican beaches whereNot all these films are blissful—tragedy and sorrow are inevitable parts of cinema, as in life–but each one offers sweeping views of its setting.
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