Tournage d'une scène de "Paris brûle-t-il ?" Sur la place de la Concorde, août 1965 © Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque historique / Roger-Viollet
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Is Paris Burning? When Cinema Reinvents Liberation
27/03/2024 - 22/09/2024
Musée de la Libération de Paris – Musée du général Leclerc – Musée Jean Moulin
4 Avenue du Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy
75014 Paris
www.museeliberation-leclerc-moulin.paris.fr/
In 1966, René Clément's film Paris Brule-t-il? recounts the Liberation of Paris, just twenty years after the events. A host of French and American stars contributed to the success of this iconic blockbuster, which remains a cinematic reference today.
Around emblematic scenes from the film, visitors will discover the story of the Liberation of Paris in the political context of the 1960s.Documents and archives from the René Clément Foundation, including storyboards, notes and sketches, photographs and reports on the filming, as well as some 70 objects linked to the Liberation of Paris from the museum's collections, objects, photographs and documents on the filming, will be presented alongside scenes from the film. These different elements will help us to decipher the intentions behind the scenes of this legendary film, which won 2 Oscars. The images created by filmmaker René Clément and his team are both a history of the Liberation of Paris and a crystallization of the collective imagination.
27/03/2024 - 22/09/2024
Musée de la Libération de Paris – Musée du général Leclerc – Musée Jean Moulin
4 Avenue du Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy
75014 Paris
www.museeliberation-leclerc-moulin.paris.fr/
In 1966, René Clément's film Paris Brule-t-il? recounts the Liberation of Paris, just twenty years after the events. A host of French and American stars contributed to the success of this iconic blockbuster, which remains a cinematic reference today.
Around emblematic scenes from the film, visitors will discover the story of the Liberation of Paris in the political context of the 1960s.Documents and archives from the René Clément Foundation, including storyboards, notes and sketches, photographs and reports on the filming, as well as some 70 objects linked to the Liberation of Paris from the museum's collections, objects, photographs and documents on the filming, will be presented alongside scenes from the film. These different elements will help us to decipher the intentions behind the scenes of this legendary film, which won 2 Oscars. The images created by filmmaker René Clément and his team are both a history of the Liberation of Paris and a crystallization of the collective imagination.