![]() ‘ Attack of the Clones‘ draws to a close on 124 minutes with the secret wedding of Anakin and Padm é at the Naboo lake retreat known as Villa del Balbianello in Como. The exterior of the Lars Homestead ( below) is actually many many kilometres away in the middle of nowhere in Chott el Djerid, Nefta. They then sit around the famous table in the dining room ( below) where Luke had some blue milk with Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru in the original Star Wars movie. The Lars Homestead ( below) is in Matmata (south east Tunisia) and returns to our screens for the first time since 1977 with Anakin and Padm é meeting Lars Clieg in the courtyard as they search for Anakin’s mother Shmi Skywalker. So it’s back to Tunisia on 64 minutes and the Mos Espa set near Tozeur is used again as Anakin is re-united with Watto at the workshop ( below) where he was a former slave. The sunlight made the photo below hard to re-create but typically I didn’t think about closing the door until later that same evening. “Jedi don’t have nightmares” is what Anakin tells Padm é at the loggia but she says that she heard him and then he explains that he saw his mother in pain in his dreams and that he must return to Tatooine to try and save her. The loggia ( below) at Villa del Balbianello, which also appeared in ‘ Casino Royale’, features on 59 minutes though only the area under the arches is seen beginning with Anakin in a Jedi trance looking out across the lake early in the morning following his nightmare. By that I mean the shabby building in one of the photos below. The picnic meadow where Anakin and Padm é get closer (47-50 minutes into the film) was filmed in a couple of private fields in Como which could be anywhere in the world to be fair! The waterfalls and the shaaks (indigenous Naboo animals) were added by CGI of course and this field can only really be recognised thanks to some behind the scenes pictures in the ‘Star Wars 365 Days’ book by John Knoll. This balcony ( below) is where the two heroes kiss for the first time although Padm é later pulls away as their love is forbidden. Notice the strange shape trunk on the right of the photo below. They walk over to the balcony overlooking the lake. I had to take my pictures of the boat dock and steps leading down to it from different angles.Īfter climbing the steps (off camera) we then see the pair of them walk along a terrace ( below) with a pond in the foreground and a bush in the background. Sadly I didn’t get to take a photo of the place from quite the same angle as I never took a boat to that part of the lake.Īnakin and Padm é arrive by boat at the lake retreat ( below) on the latter’s home planet of Naboo which was a different place to where I arrived and this scene could not be perfectly re-created as it was shot from the stone wall which isn’t accessible to the public. The rest of the Naboo scenes which follow were all shot in Como in the north of the country. We first see the splendid Villa del Balbianello from the lake ( below) on 44 minutes albeit with CGI domes added to the roof. It was used more extensively in ‘ The Phantom Menace‘ and also features in ‘ Mission: Impossible III‘ (2006) and ‘ Angels & Demons‘ (2009). On 38 minutes Anakin, Padm é and Artoo are at the Plaza de Espana in Seville ( below) for a fairly short scene which was cut down in the edit as an extended arrival on Naboo deleted scene appears on the DVD.Ĭaserta Palace ( below) in Southern Italy makes a brief return for this movie after 39 minutes. ![]() ‘Return to Naboo’ is chapter 15 on the DVD. ![]() I was fairly underwhelmed when I first saw it a decade ago but as the years have rolled by, and with the saga more complete, I have been able to watch and enjoy it a whole lot more and this of course was heightened by my visits to the various locations used. With the 10th Anniversary of ‘ Attack of the Clones‘ coming up mid-May, and hot on the heels of Tokyo Fox‘s recent ‘ Phantom Menace‘ movie location compilation, comes the Italian, Spanish and Tunisian scenes from the second of the prequel films.
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