All the World's Memory
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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Countries
France
Ratings
TMDB users
7.1/10
47 votes
Rating consensus
71/100 blend
Sources: TMDB
Moderate-to-positive blended read — weighted ~71/100 across 1 rating source. The listed meters mostly agree.
Cast
Jacques Dumesnil
Self / Narrator (voice)
Agnès Varda
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All the World's Memory (1956)
Alain Resnais
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