La Tour backdrop
La Tour poster

Quick Info

IMDb
Rating
6.2/10
Release1928
Runtime0h 14m
StatusReleased
BudgetN/A
RevenueN/A
Production
Albatros
Movie

La Tour

1928
0h 14m
6.2
Documentary

Synopsis

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.

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