Claes Bang is the unknown of the Grande Arche: trailer
After his presentation at the Cannes Film Festival, Stéphane Demoustier’s new film passes through Angoulême.
You never wondered how the construction of the Grande Arche de la Défense took place? More exciting than it seems, this story is told to us by the director Stéphane Demoustier (The girl with a bracelet,, Borgo) In his new feature film, selected at the last Cannes Festival in the Un certain Locat section.
The unknown of the Grande Archeit’s Johan Otto von Spreckelsen (played by Claes Bang). In the early 1980s, this Danish architect won the Head Defense competition to everyone’s surprise, and was responsible for building an emblematic building in the axis of the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe. The largest project of the time.
Despite the support of his wife (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and the help of a French architect, Paul Andreu (Swann Arlaud), he will quickly be disillusioned and see his ideas come up against the reality of the French bureaucracy (embodied by Xavier Dolan). We are under the chairmanship of François Mitterrand (Michel Fau) who intends to mark his first mandate by his policy of major works.
This fascinating historical account, masterfully interpreted and framed in square format (like the cube that Spreckelsen imagined), will be released in the room on November 5. The unknown of the Grande Arche Will be presented this Friday at the Angoulême Festival in the “Les Famboyants” selection. Trailer:
