Broadcast this evening on TF1, the comedy “Eyjafjallajökull”, carried by the duo Danny Boon and Valérie Bonneton, has as its backdrop the famous volcanic eruption that occurred in 2010. And the bill turned out to be quite salty…
This Sunday, TF1 broadcasts Eyjafjallajökull – the volcano; comedy led by the tandem Danny Boon and Valérie Bonneton released in 2013. Or, to be even more exact and a bit biting, rebroadcasts a film that it has already broadcast in October 2020…
Eyjafjallajökull, so. Not content with being able to provide you with a scrabble with its almost unpronounceable name, the famous Icelandic volcano which erupted in 2010, which had blocked part of the world’s air traffic with the cancellation of 6000 flights, provided the canvas background of Alexandre Coffre’s film.
For the record, Eyjafjallajökull is basically an ice cap in southern Iceland. With an area of approximately 78 km2, it is the sixth largest glacier in the country out of the thirteen ice caps that make up Iceland. This glacier partially covers a volcanic massif, the Eyjafjöll, or more exactly the Eyjafjöll.
Eyjafjöll is a 700,000 year old stratovolcano. It seems to have been inactive, having experienced eruptions around 550, in 1612 and from 1821 to 1823. Sleeping for 190 years, it woke up in March 2010, to remain in eruption for 7 months, causing in passing, according to figures provided by the International Air Transport Association, a loss of $ 1.7 billion for airlines.
Iceland is a land where volcanoes are among the most active in the world. More than eleven years after the eruption of Eyjafjöll, it was Mount Fagradalsfjall (“beautiful lava valley” in Icelandic) that woke up from its torpor, after an 800-year slumber. An eruption that has lasted more than six months; unheard of for half a century in the small Nordic country yet accustomed to intense volcanic activity.
Not sure that this eruption, even in the very long term, will provide sufficient material for a possible sequel still led by Danny Boon and Valérie Bonneton…