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Behind the iconic Eiffel Tower lies the story of an incredible challenge to erect a thousand-foot tower that went far beyond a design competition,...
Eiffel's Race to the Top
Van Gogh, deux mois et une éternité
After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.
Summer Hours
The first part in a new series of films produced by Musée d'Orsay, 'Flight of the Red Balloon' tells the story of a French family as seen...
Flight of the Red Balloon
We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set...
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Orientalism is a literary and artistic movement born in Western Europe in the 18th century. Through its scale and popularity, throughout the 19th...
L'Orientalisme
In Barcelona, the Casa Batlló alone sums up the genius of Antoni Gaudí. During the exhibition devoted to it by the Musée...
Gaudí, le génie visionnaire de Barcelone
Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly...
The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art
A landmark work of symbolistic imagery. The words that the filmmakers speak offscreen are imaginary conversation with Cézanne quoted from a...
Cézanne – Conversation with Joachim Gasquet
Nice is nice
Le Temps d'un détour. Marseille au XIXe siècle
A movie about James Tissot (1836-1902), a French painter and portraitist
James Tissot: L'étoffe d'un peintre
Correspondance privée sur un lieu public
Henri Rousseau started to paint in Paris around 1880, at the age of 40. This self-taught artist was friendly with the poet Apollinaire, Robert...
Henri Rousseau, or The Burgeoning of Modern Art
Combining real footage, archival footage, fiction and 3D modeling, this unseen documentary traces the history of this spectacular and unfinished work.
Sagrada Familia - Gaudi's challenge
Cocottes et courtisanes dans l’œil des peintres
Based on a painting by Gustave Caillebotte.
Les raboteurs
Inaugurated in 1986 by François Mitterrand, a link between the Louvre and Pompidou, Orsay houses the largest collection of Impressionist art...
Orsay, les grandes métamorphoses
In Pablo Picasso's career, a blue and pink period gets the attention they deserve. It is between 1901 and 1907 that the seeds of all his future work...
Picasso Metamorphoses in Blue and Pink
Degas à l'Opéra