Lumière! The Adventure Continues

130 years ago, the Lumière brothers invented cinema. Everything was already there: the composition, tracking shots, dramatic scenes, comedy sketches, actors… Thanks to the restoration of over 100 previously unseen Lumière ‘views’ –comedies, dramas, and travelogues –Thierry Frémaux offers us a spectacle of the world at the turn of the century and a stimulating journey to the origins of the moving image, of cinema through the pioneering achievements of the French entrepreneurs Auguste and Louis Lumière 

Thierry Frémaux, the director of the Cannes Film Festival, the Institut Lumière, and the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, France, the birthplace of these remarkable brothers, brings a wealth of insight, history, and revelation to this journey back to the 1890s, when the Lumière Company, with their astonishing new invention, the cinematograph, made it possible for audiences to voyage around the world in moving pictures for the first time. Set to an evocative score of period music by Gabriel Fauré, this wondrous documentary enables contemporary viewers to imagine an entirely new language of storytelling unfolding film by glorious film.