All the World’s Memory

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Short / Documentary
France, 1956, 21 min

Directed by:

Alain Resnais

Screenplay:

Rémo Forlani

Cinematography:

Ghislain Cloquet

Composer:

Maurice Jarre

Cast:

Jacques Dumesnil (narrator)
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With its long tracking shots through cavernous library hallways and its skeptical corresponding text, this film imagines the Bibliothèque Nationale as a forbiddingly inhuman landscape in which man attempts to imprison “knowledge” in an effort to counter the limits of his own memory. (MUBI)