ItalianoLumière, le cinéma!
23 October 18:00
Teatro Studio Gianni Borgna
Pub Acc
Festa del cinema
Synopsis
The sequel to the series Lumière! brings back to life another hundred Lumière films, all immaculately restored, and aims above all to more deeply explore the history of the invention and affirmation of “cinema” in the world. Audiences will find confirmation that the beauty of cinema today owes much, if not everything, to its roots.
COMMENTARY
The sequel to Lumière! The Adventury Begins gathers close to one hundred films by the Lumière brothers, all perfectly restored. Following the success of its predecessor, this new feature-length film confirms to audiences around the world that at the basis of the finest films in the history of cinema are its profoundly French, and at the same time international, origins. The soundtrack is borrowed from the works of the French composer Gabriel Fauré, a contemporary of the Lumière brothers. The film was conceived and is narrated by Thierry Frémaux, the general manager of the Institut Lumière.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
Next year will mark the 130-year anniversary of the birth of cinema. Maëlle and I are anticipating this date and at this time are putting the rarest or entirely unknown films by the Lumière brothers at the disposition of the public after their restoration in the laboratories of L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna, and the CNC in Paris.
Director
Thierry Frémaux
After growing up in Vénissieux-Lyon on bread and cinema, Thierry Frémaux now directs the Institut Lumière in Lyon, with which he began to collaborate in 1982 as a volunteer. Since 2007, he has been the General Delegate for the Cannes Film Festival as well. In 2009 he helped establish the Festival Lumière. Lumière! L’aventure commence was made in 2016, and is the first act in a journey back to the dawn of the seventh art.