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While waiting for the film with Romain Duris, the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation is exhibiting Eiffel

2021-09-13T05:15:45.822Z


Actors' outfits, film sets, photos from the shooting of the film in theaters on October 13, but also a host of objects from the Universal Exhibition of 1889. This small exhibition around the tower is worth seeing.


Without the pandemic, this exhibition at the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation devoted to the Eiffel Tower should have been held in parallel with the release of the film

Eiffel

by Martin Bourboulon with Romain Duris and Emma Mackey at the cinema.

A film produced by Pathé, owned by the same Jérôme Seydoux.

Finally, this romantic fresco has been postponed to October 13 and the exhibition will end at the beginning of October as planned.

Coming to Avenue des Gobelins is first and foremost the opportunity to discover or admire again the magnificent, transparent building by star architect Renzo Piano.

The exhibition in a scenography in light tones overlooks a birch garden where you can then have a tea.

Read also Covid-19: the Eiffel Tower reopens under constraints

The idea is not to tell the story of the Eiffel Tower since it is the object of the film but to show that it was immediately an essential image for Parisians as for advertisers and souvenir dealers. . The exhibition mixes photos, models and costumes from the film with memorabilia from the late 19th century and current affairs films.

Photos taken by an amateur pharmacist show that it was very complicated with the devices of the time to take a picture of the entire Eiffel Tower. It did not fit into the glass frame of the time! Further on, we discover souvenir plates and paper cups. Current derivatives are nothing new! We also discover a huge poster of the Buffalo Bill show. He had crossed the Atlantic with his troop of forty Indians and their hundred horses and was a great attraction at the 1889 World's Fair. The little boys who were lucky enough to experience this spectacle were marked for life by Buffalo Bill as Jacques Prévert will later tell in his biography.

In one corner of the hanging, we admire a wooden phonograph by Edison (1847-1931) presented at the Universal Exhibition. With its large vacuum-style, cream-white hoses, it not only made it possible to record sound but also to listen to it. Its use will be democratized five years later by Charles Pathé who by placing it in fairs, with paid auditions, will make it an extremely profitable business.

The parade of outfits worn by the actors and presented on wooden mannequins is fun. Thierry Delettre, the chef costume of the film was inspired by the fashion of this baroque and rococo period between 1860-1880 but with a modern twist. On a dark blue dress, we see for example that he used jeans. For the younger generations to appropriate the film, it was inspired by the paintings of the time but removing all the overload. Here, the sleeves are rolled up, the collars are open. The frozen and dusty aspect of the time is erased at best.

Photos hung on a large wall give an idea of ​​the work of the set crew on the set.

On the outdoor sets in the south of Paris, these craftsmen have reconstructed a foot of the Eiffel Tower.

Its actual size is twelve meters but on the big screen, spectators will have the impression of seeing Romain Duris and the workers perched 80 meters above the ground.

On the set, the team constantly moved the elements, like a cube game, which allowed the director to limit the use of special effects.

And to give a dizzying impression ...

Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation, until October 2.

73, avenue des Gobelins, Paris 13th.

Source: lefigaro

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