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All the World's Memory

All the World's Memory

★ 7.1/10•1956•21m•Documentary

A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being.

Alain Resnais · Director

StatusReleased
Runtime21m
LanguageFR
Release DateNov 1, 1956

Actors

Jacques Dumesnil

Jacques Dumesnil

Self / Narrator (voice)

Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda

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