Louvre City ( La ville Louvre ) ( I poli tou Louvrou )

Louvre City (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La ville Louvre
Alternate Title: I poli tou Louvrou
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
84 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1990 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Nicolas Philibert

Written By:
Nicolas Philibert

Actors:
Nicolas Philibert

Synopsis:

This video goes to Paris for a tour of France's most famous museum, the Louvre. A curator leads the viewer on an appreciative and informative tour of some of the greatest art works in the museum's vast collection. From tapestries to sculptures to paintings, the course of artistic achievement through the centuries is showcased. Included is a look at the museum's most celebrated painting, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

This portrait of the venerable stone corridors, galleries and chambers of Paris's Louvre Museum and its city of inhabitants shows the director's fascination with work in all its wondrous detail. Nicolas Philibert has a keen sense of how man's artifacts comment on him differently when estranged from their habitual context.

A voyage into the museum's reserves, and part of the extra work involved to mount the expositions after the renovation of the Louvre in the 1980s, when the glass pyramid was added to the classic buildings. From the preservation rooms through the frame and painting retouches by experts, to the personnel instruction on how to be efficient in protecting the collections, and look nice to the visitors.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 06 September, 2011.