Short / Documentary
France,
1956, 21 min
Directed by:
Alain ResnaisScreenplay:
Rémo ForlaniCinematography:
Ghislain CloquetComposer:
Maurice JarrePlots(1)
With its long tracking shots through cavernous library hallways and its skeptical corresponding text, this film imagines the Bibliothèque Nationale as a forbiddingly inhuman landscape in which man attempts to imprison “knowledge” in an effort to counter the limits of his own memory. (MUBI)
Cast
Jacques Dumesnil (narrator)
France
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