LUMIÈRE, LE CINÉMA

Director – Thierry Frémaux
France, 2024
Documentary
Duration: 103 min. 
Language: French, with English subtitles

130 years ago, the Lumière brothers invented cinema. All of cinema was already there: the variety of shots, the drama, comedy, actors... Through the restoration of over 100 previously unseen Lumière views, this film offers us the pristine spectacle of our world at the beginning of the last century and an inspiring journey to the origins of a cinema that knows no end. 

In his new film, Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate of the Cannes Film Festival and Director of the Institut Lumière, brings together more than 120 Lumière films, recently restored using modern technology, into a single cinematic journey to the origins of cinema. Following his ambition to “make one Lumière film out of Lumière films,” Frémaux does more than present a remarkable collection of historical footage: he invites us to see Louis Lumière not only as the inventor of cinema, but also as its first great filmmaker, whose artistic innovations continue to influence cinema today.