Lumière, Le Cinéma!

Lumière, Le Cinéma!

2024
1h 44m
7.0

7.0/10

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Documentary History
Overview

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers Auguste and Louis, whose brilliant invention, the cinematograph, helped to inaugurate the most beloved art form of the last 130 years. Institute Lumière director Thierry Frémaux uses Lumière, Le Cinema! to guide the viewer through over a hundred shorts—some famous, some forgotten, some never before seen—directed by Lumière and company. In the process, Frémaux illuminates how the brothers employed the camera as a creative instrument as they (and their operators) mastered framing, staging, and subject selection for quotidian and exotic microdocumentaries as well as the first ever fictional motion pictures. The result is not only a glorious re(telling) of the genesis of cinema but a profound meditation on the beautiful world captured—and the mysterious world imagined—by the Lumières.

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Language: FR

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Production Information

Production Companies
Sorties d'Usine Productions Institut Lumière
Production Countries
France
Spoken Languages
French

Keywords

invention cinematographer filmmaking archive footage documentary filmmaking old footage cinema history film archives origin story street cinema silent cinema retro cinema history and legacy experimental cinema historical documentary low-budget filmmaking lumiere films

Quick Facts

Original Title Lumière, l’aventure continue
Release Date November 22, 2024
Status Released
Language FR
IMDb ID tt10323412
Website Visit Site

Cast

Thierry Frémaux
Thierry Frémaux

Self - Narrator (voice)

Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola

Self

Roman Coppola
Roman Coppola

Self

Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier

Self

Valerio Mastandrea
Valerio Mastandrea

Self - Narrator (voice)

Key Crew

Thierry Frémaux
Director
Maelle Arnaud
Producer
Thierry Frémaux
Writer