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Lumière and Company is a danois film of genre Drama directed by Gabriel Axel released in USA on 29 march 1996 with Isabelle Huppert
Lumière and Company (1995)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 29 march 1996
Length 1h28
Directed by Gabriel Axel, Cédric Klapisch, Patrice Leconte, Claude Lelouch, Abbas Kiarostami, Andreï Kontchalovski, Youssef Chahine, Liv Ullmann, Wim Wenders, Costa-Gavras, Jacques Rivette, Theo Angelopoulos, Alain Corneau, Michael Haneke, Claude Miller, John Boorman, David Lynch, Francis Girod, Merzak Allouache, James Ivory, Spike Lee, Arthur Penn, Jerry Schatzberg, Jaco Van Dormael, Peter Greenaway, Gaston Kaboré, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Bigas Luna, Zhang Yimou, Régis Wargnier, Yoshishige Yoshida, Lucian Pintilie, Lasse Hallström, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Nadine Trintignant, Raymond Depardon, Vicente Aranda, Fernando Trueba, Ismail Merchant, Hugh Hudson
OriginDanemark
Rating68%
Lumière and Company (1995, original title Lumière et compagnie) was a collaboration between forty-one international film directors in which each made a short film using the original Cinématographe camera invented by the Lumière brothers.
Shorts were edited in-camera and constrained by three rules:
A short may be no longer than 52 seconds
No synchronized sound
No more than three takes
Synopsis
40 réalisateurs ont tourné 52 secondes de leur choix sans son et en trois prises maximum avec la caméra originelle des frères Lumière.Actors
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