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La Tour

La Tour

6,3 /10 (12 Votes)
1928 FR 14 min

Overview

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.

Release date

02/01/1928

Votes

12

Popularity

0.6

Genres

Status

Released

Language

FR

Runtime

14 min

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