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195621 minPGdocumentary

7.1/ 10(50 ratings)• TMDB

All the World's Memory

195621 minPGdocumentary

7.1/ 10(50 ratings)• TMDB

Explore the Bibliothèque Nationale as a guardian of cultural memory.

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Explore the Bibliothèque Nationale as a guardian of cultural memory.

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Alain Resnais

Alain Resnaisdirector

Jacques Dumesnil

Jacques Dumesnilcast

Agnès Varda

Agnès Vardacast

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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.

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