Lumière! L’Aventure Continue | Lumière! The Adventure Continues: dir Thierry Frémaux (2024)

This 103-minute documentary contains more than one hundred 50-second films captured by the movie pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumiere, supported by sensitive and knowledge narration from the compiler –.who happens to be the artistic director of the world’s most prestigious film festival. In 2017, he directed Lumière!, his first archive-based tribute to the Lumiere brothers and a love letter to the seventh art, This loose sequel features Frémaux’s eloquent musings supported by music by Gabriel Fauré (the French composer was a contemporary of the Lumières.

In French with English subtitles. This film screens as part of the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s Cannes Nights series, inviting the audience to “experience the glamour of the Cannes Film Festival” in collaboration with the Institut Français. Screenings take place in the museum’s auditorium.