Lumière et compagnie (1995)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Directors:

Theodoros Angelopoulos
Vicente Aranda

Writer:

Philippe Poulet (original idea)

Release Date:

20 December 1995 (France)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers...

Plot Keywords:

Director | Film Making | Silent Filmmaking | Paris France | Film Camera

Cast

Jeffe Alperi	...	Policeman (segment "David Lynch")
Romane Bohringer	...	(segment "Claude Miller")
Michele Carlyle	...	(segment "David Lynch")
Lou Chapiteau	...	(segment "Claude Miller")
Marc Chapiteau	...	(segment "Claude Miller")
Antoine Duléry	...	(segment "Claude Lelouch")
Pascal Duquenne	...	(segment "Jaco Van Dormael")
Bruno Ganz	...	Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Charles Gérard	...	(segment "Claude Lelouch")
Ticky Holgado	...	(segment "Claude Lelouch")
Neil Jordan	...	(segment "John Boorman")
Patrice Leconte	...	Himself (segment "Sarah Moon")
Satchel Lee	...	(segment "Spike Lee")
Spike Lee	...	Himself (segment "Sarah Moon")
Claude Lelouch	...	Himself (segment "Sarah Moon")
Stan Lothridge	...	Policeman (segment "David Lynch")
David Lynch	...	Himself
Alessandra Martines	...	(segment "Claude Lelouch")
François Mitterrand	...	Himself (segment "Régis Wargnier")
Liam Neeson	...	(segment "John Boorman")
Sven Nykvist	...	(segment "Liv Ullman")
Lena Olin	...	(segment "Lasse Hallström")
Idrissa Ouedraogo	...	Himself
Géraldine Pailhas	...	(segment "Cédric Klapisch")
Russ Pearlman	...	Child (segment "David Lynch")
Pam Pierrocish	...	Mother (segment "David Lynch")
Aidan Quinn	...	(segment "John Boorman")
Kathleen Raymond	...	(segment "David Lynch")
Stephen Rea	...	(segment "John Boorman")
Nathalie Richard	...	Ninon (segment "Jacques Rivette")
Alan Rickman	...	(segment "John Boorman")
Jacques Rivette	...	Himself (segment "Sarah Moon (I)")
Félix Romeo	...	Himself (segment "Fernando Trueba")
Joan Rudelstein	...	(segment "David Lynch")
Dawn Salcedo	...	(segment "David Lynch")
Otto Sander	...	Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Clyde Small	...	Father (segment "David Lynch")
Zinedine Soualem	...	(segment "Cédric Klapisch")
Liv Ullmann	...	Herself (segment "Sarah Moon (I)")
Mark Wood	...	Policeman (segment "David Lynch")
Yimou Zhang	...	Himself

Also Known As:

Lumière and Company (International: English title)
Lumiere y compañía (Spain)

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

France | Denmark | Spain | Sweden

Language:

French | English | Danish | Norwegian | Swedish | Greek | Japanese | Mandarin

Color:

Black and White | Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

South Korea:15 | Spain:T | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Athens, Greece

Company:

Cinétévé

Movie Connections:

Features Repas de bébé (1895)

Actually quite an impressive project

This video was given to me by a friend who knows that I look at film not merely as entertainment, but art as well. This project with its 40-odd 50 second vignettes done by a mix of directors of varying talents and celebrity, using an antiquated camera, gives an opportunity to see snapshots of their work as pure art. All of them are at least passable, with over half being very, very good. A few of them are truly outstanding, the most notable being Andre Konchalovsky's gem on life, death, temporality and nature. David Lynch's segment is a close second. I highly recommend this to any serious student of film as art.