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Journey to the center of the library

Télérama, TTT: "With an inspired camera, the documentary maker isolates a 15th century illumination

and the face absent from the world of a reader, a drawing scribbled by Artaud on the bad paper of a rough notebook or the automated ballet of the nacelles, which transport

to their recipients the requested works. With sovereign grace, Frédéric Laffont signs a dreamy evocation of this place of memory and whispers, invokes Hamlet and Gutenberg, slips into the footsteps of a regular of the place who once saved from death

his knowledge of Latin gives voice to Tolstoy and Apollinaire...

Libération: " We highly recommend Journey to the Center of the Library

(France 5, 8:50 p.m.), poetic stroll by Frédéric Laffont through the shelves

of the memory of the world, as Alain Resnais would say."

A film by Frédéric Laffont

Edited by Emmanuelle Pencalet

Duration: 50'

© Cinétévé, Interscoop, 2006

An immersion in the heart of the four sites of the National Library of France.

A walk to the rhythm of rustling and whispering through the corridors and reserves

and the shelves.

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