Man Of Glass ( L'homme De Verre )

Man Of Glass (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: L'homme De Verre
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby DTS 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
53 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
René Lalique

Written By:
René Lalique

Actors:
René Lalique

Synopsis:

First as a jeweller, draughtsman and interior decorator, and then as a master glassmaker, René Lalique (1860-1945) managed to combine business acumen with artistic ability. A proponent of Art Nouveau and then Art Deco, this passionate and open-minded artist celebrated nature and women throughout his life. Lalique's works are filmed here for the first time, while his personality, magnetism and intense love-life are revealed through the recollections of his daughter Renée Lalique, his granddaughter Nicole Maritch-Haviland, and even his great-granddaughters. The works of Lalique, divided into two periods of jewellery and glass, are elucidated by Evelyne Possémé and Jean-Luc Olivié, curators at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris. Maria Fernanda Passos Leite, the curator of the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, describes the artist's relationship with his friend and patron, the oil magnate Calouste Gulbenkian. In the background are period images of France, shaped by the latest technological discoveries and the rise of industrialism.

Through the testimonies of his heirs but also of experts and museum curators, this documentary relates the exceptional fate of René Lalique. René Lalique (1860-1945) was all at the same time jeweller, drawer, interior designer and glassmaster. He was able to combine with talent business sense and know-how. Inspired by the new artistic trends and by industrial discoveries, he took advantage of an epoch which was undergoing profound change and he knew how to surround himself with talented fellow workers and women who supported him. The film narrates the amazing course of this native of Champagne who started from nothing. His fame crosses the frontiers.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 16 November, 2009.