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Patrick the donkey are two in fact: one quiet and sweet; the other one nervous and unpredictable.

Selected for the 2020 Cannes International Film Festival (cancelled due to the Covid pandemic).

Writer/Director Caroline Vignal took inspiration from the characters of Delphine in Le rayon vert (1986) and Elle Woods in क़ानूनन ब्लोंड (2001) for the main character Antoinette Lapouge, whose surname was taken from author Gilles Lapouge, who wrote the introduction for some French editions of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes", a key inspiration for the film. Coincidentally, Lapouge passed away the same year the film was released.

The song "My Rifle, My Pony and Me" which is background music during the film and over the end credits is a recording of music from Rio Bravo (1959) and is sung by Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson.

Principal photography began on June 11, 2019 and took place in the Cévennes and the Île-de-France region. The seven-week shoot lasted until July 31, 2019. Antoinette dans les Cévennes (2020) was shot largely in the Lozère department, with locations including the Mont Lozère and its Sommet de Finiels, the Roc du Couillou, the Col du Sapet as well as the village of Le Pont-de-Montvert. Antoinette ends her journey in the small town of Florac, in the heart of the Cévennes.