Toute la mémoire du monde (1956)

A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being.

Directed by: Alain Resnais

Cast: Jacques Dumesnil, Agnès Varda

Genres: Documentary

Rating: 7.1/10

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