Director
Alain Resnais
Music (original)
Maurice Jarre
Cast
Jacques Dumesnil
Edition 1998
21'
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1956
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Documentary, Short
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Format:
35mm
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Dialogue:
French
The endless stacks and corridors of the Bibliothèque Nationale lend themselves particularly well to the long tracking shots Resnais so enjoys, and there are visual echoes in several later films of the Borgesian mazes that dominate this lyrical documentary about the great library.
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Credits
Directors
Alain Resnais
Music (original)
Maurice Jarre
Cast
Jacques Dumesnil
Scenario
Rémo Forlani, Chris Marker
Director of Photography
Ghislain Cloquet
Editors
Anne Sarraute, Alain Resnais, Claudine Merlin
Producers
Pierre Braunberger
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Dialogue
French
Countries of production
France
Year
1956
Filmography
Alain Resnais
L'aventure de Guy (short, 1936), Schéma d'une identification (short, 1946), Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire (1946), Visite à Oscar Dominguez (short, 1947), Visite à Lucien Coutaud (short, 1947), Visite à Hans Hartung (short, 1947), Visite à Félix Labisse (short, 1947), Visite à César Doméla (short, 1947), Portrait d'Henri Goetz (short, 1947), Le last Nestlé (short, 1947), L'alcool tue (short, 1947), Journée naturelle (short, 1947), Van Gogh (short, 1948), Malfray (short, 1948), Les Jardins de Paris (short, 1948), Châteaux de France (short, 1948), Gaugain (short, 1949), Pictura (1951), Guernica (1951), Statues also Die (short, 1953), Night and Fog (short, 1956), All the Memory in the World (short, 1956), Le mystère de l'atelier quince (short, 1957), The Song of Styrene (short, 1958), Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), Muriel (1963), The War Is Over (1966), Far from Vietnam (1967), I Love You, I Love You (1968), Cinétracts (1968), The Year 01 (1973), Stavisky (1974), Providence (1977), My American Uncle (1980), Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983), Love Unto Death (1984), Mélo (1986), I Want to Go Home (1989), Lest We Forget (1991), No Smoking (1993), Same Old Song (1997), Not on the Lips (2003), Private Fears in Public Places (2006), Wild Grass (2009), You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012), Life of Riley (2014)
Technical Specs
Format
35mm