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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Genre: Documentary
Director: Alain Resnais
Actors: Agnès Varda, Jacques Dumesnil
Country: France
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