Fake Cities

The article talks of the fake cities built around the world in order to test people's reactions and behaviours in certain scenarios. Included in some of these would be a pretend mall where children are given a budget and their spending studied, or an environment where soldiers would practise an operation. Lucille says "The creative director wanted a surreal mix of real and fake, a Parisian façade that would be part of a set with real people interacting within it as normal. The journalist who wrote the article, is an actress and lecturer on cinema. She used to be a cinema critique in a great program called Le Cercle on Canal+."