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
English version:
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER
OF THE LIBRARY
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.