Lumière, Le Cinéma!

Screening as part of this year’s French Film Festival.

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, “lumière”, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers Auguste and Louis, whose brilliant invention, the cinematograph, helped to inaugurate the most beloved art form of the last 130 years. 

Institut Lumière director Thierry Frémaux (and also director of the Cannes Film Festival) uses Lumière, Le Cinéma! to guide the viewer through more than 100 shorts – some famous, some forgotten, some never seen – directed by Lumière and company.