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All the World's Memory

1956· 0h 21m

Documentary

Directed by Alain Resnais

7.1/ 10

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Overview

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.

Cast

Jacques Dumesnil

Jacques Dumesnil

Self / Narrator (voice)

Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda

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