Lumière & Company (1995) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1995 · 88 mins · French

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Directed by

Michael Haneke, John Boorman

Starring

Liam Neeson, Isabelle Huppert, Stephen Rea, Neil Jordan, Alan Rickman, Bruno Ganz

Forty short films created by leading international directors were shot on the original Lumière Brothers’ Cinématographe, adhering to the same constraints as in 1895. Each piece may run no longer than 52 seconds, contains no synchronized sound and is limited to three takes, offering a contemporary glimpse of early cinema techniques.