La Tour1928
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.
- Released
- 2. 1. 1928
- Runtime
- 14 min
- Genres
- Documentary
- Certification
- NO
- Country, language
- FR · FR
- Community rating
- 6.2 · 10 votes