Lumière, Le Cinéma!(2024)

Lumière, Le Cinéma! Synopsis

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers Auguste and Louis, whose brilliant invention, the cinematograph, helped to inaugurate the most beloved art form of the last 130 years. Institute Lumière director Thierry Frémaux uses Lumière, Le Cinema! to guide the viewer through over a hundred shorts—some famous, some forgotten, some never before seen—directed by Lumière and company. In the process, Frémaux illuminates how the brothers employed the camera as a creative instrument as they (and their operators) mastered framing, staging, and subject selection for quotidian and exotic microdocumentaries as well as the first ever fictional motion pictures. The result is not only a glorious re(telling) of the genesis of cinema but a profound meditation on the beautiful world captured—and the mysterious world imagined—by the Lumières.

Lumière, Le Cinéma! (2024) is a documentary and history film directed by Thierry Frémaux, released on November 22, 2024 with a runtime of 1h 44m. It stars Thierry Frémaux, Francis Ford Coppola, Roman Coppola and Bertrand Tavernier. Viewers rate it 7.1 out of 10 across 16 ratings.