Lumière 2017, here we go!

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2017

Tilda Swinton, Vincent Lindon, Guillermo Del Toro, Michael Mann, Pierre Richard, Marina Foïs, Gérard Jugnot, Catherine Frot... and naturally, Eddy Mitchell, were among the personalities who came to kick off the 9th edition of Lumière!. 

© Institut Lumière / Olivier Chassignole

Wong Kar-wai, makes films to “travel through time,” the ending words of the Lumière 2017 program video presentation. We took a short trip, paying homage to Jerry Lewis and Jean Rochefort. "It is hard to talk about someone we truly liked," confessed Bertrand Tavernier, referring to the French actor. Later, the screen transformed into a gigantic checkerboard, where the 1,400 Lumière films were projected simultaneously. One brilliant minute of gorgeous black and white graphics. After the tradition of declaring the festival officially “open!” and songs by Mexican musicians, Eddy Mitchell, expert cocktail mixer, launched straight into a karaoke of his hit, La Dernière Séance (The Last Show). Finally, the curtain was raised… for Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece, North by Northwest.
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© Institut Lumière / Lea Rener

Virginie Apiou

Virginie Apiou