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La Tour

1928-01-02
6.2
fr 14m
Documentary
A poetic documentary tribute to the famous Eiffel tower, built for the 1889 World Fair and intended to have been destroyed 20 years later. A vocal subset of Parisians (among which, one may surmise, Clair would've been counted) insisted the Tower remain above the River Seine, a continued display of French engineering excellence. Clair makes strategic use of double exposures and dissolves, capturing the mechanical exuberance of the Tower; The great swooping steel latticework edifice a bounding symbol of the modern age.

Director

René Clair

Director of Photography

Georges Périnal

Screenplay

René Clair

Status

Released

Countries

  • France

Companies

  • Albatros