La Tour 1928
6.2/10 by 10 users
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: 1928-01-02
- Runtime: 14 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars:
- Director: René Clair, Georges Périnal, René Clair
