In Précilhon, a small town of 400 souls located in Béarn, a poster of the first part of Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” diptych is still plastered on a wall in the heart of the village. However, the town does not have a cinema…
Here is a little unusual and friendly local story, which we owe to the regional daily South West. It takes place in a charming little village in Béarn, named Precilhon. Populated by 400 souls, it is located about thirty kilometers from Pau.
At the crossroads of two roads, in the heart of the village, stands the poster for the first part of Tarantino’s Kill Bill diptych. Originally yellow, its color has completely faded. Remainder of a local cinema program that we would have forgotten to pick up for 20 years? The village does not however have any cinema; the nearest is in the town of Oloron-Sainte-Marie, just over 2 km away.
Why is she there then? The answer comes from the mayor of the municipality. “It’s a film that I enjoyed but that’s not why she’s still in it!” he answers at the microphone of the journalist from Sud Ouest. The poster being placed behind a Plexiglas display panel, fixed on “a private barn. He may be collecting rent on this panel. You have to ask him. I know that the poster has long been covered with advertisements but it always reappears. I remember in particular a chicken at 2 euros and a few”.
Uma Thurman to the rescue
In fact, it is a couple of local inhabitants, installed in Précilhon since 2021, just in front of the billboard, who is behind this poster. “We were faced with this abandoned Leader Price poster, which represented a raw chicken at €2.19. We were a little fed up, we were a little more disgusted each time we arrived in our street”.
As this advertising poster of the Hard Discount brand never changed and seemed completely forgotten, they had the idea of replacing it with the poster of Kill Bill end of 2021, a day when the panel was opened.
And even, perhaps, in the near future, to replace all the old advertising posters in the area with movie posters. “We would not attack advertisements that are still valid, but abandoned advertisements” specifies this cinephile resident of Sud Ouest.