La Ville Louvre
Nicolas Philibert
© Les Films du Losange
For the first time, a major museum reveals its behind-the-scenes secrets to a film crew: miles of underground galleries, workshops and storerooms home to thousands of paintings, sculptures and objects, places off-limits to the public... Little by little, characters appear, in increasing numbers, and cross paths to weave the threads of a story: paintings are hung, rooms are reorganised, works of art are moved, guards try on their new uniforms...
Scenario : Nicolas Philibert
Cinematography : Daniel Barrau, Richard Copans, Frédéric Labourasse, Eric Millot, Éric Pittard
Sound : Jean Umansky
Editing : Nicolas Philibert, Marie-Hélène Quinton
Music : Philippe Hersant
Cinematography : Daniel Barrau, Richard Copans, Frédéric Labourasse, Eric Millot, Éric Pittard
Sound : Jean Umansky
Editing : Nicolas Philibert, Marie-Hélène Quinton
Music : Philippe Hersant
Production : Les Films d'Ici
"La Ville Louvre (Louvre City) tells a story. Or, if you prefer, makes a statement on economics. The film tells the story of how much movement is needed to create the stillness of the museum, how much of the present is needed to give eternity to the works of the past, and how much physical and technical skill is required for a spiritual and artistic project. The film is indeed a great song of love, admiration and gratitude for the gesture of the French Revolution, which at the same time as it opened the king’s palace it gave unique access to works of art, so that the people could see them. This is what Philibert portrays, but in a strictly materialist way, in the deployment of procedures, of ‘doing’, of arrangements with matter, duration, the everyday life of men and women, without which a great idea never becomes reality." (Jean-Michel Frodon; published in Histoire de produire, Les Films d'Ici)�