La Tour
La Tour

La Tour

La Tour

Release date : 1928-01-02

Production country :

France

Production company :

Albatros

Status : Released

Durasi : 14 Min.

Popularity : 0.816

6.2

Total Vote : 10

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.