Through 50 entries, as obvious as Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge, inspired by Toulouse-Lautrec's cabarets, and as incongruous as the confounding similarities between E.T. and Léopold Chauveau's monsters, or Whistler's painting in Mr. Bean, this book revisits, under the lively pen of Laurence Des Cars and Philippe Thiébaut, the museum's masterpieces through the prism of the fantastic world of cinema in all its aspects: the films themselves, the characters, the characters, the characters, the characters, the characters. Under the lively pen of Laurence Des Cars and Philippe Thiébaut, this book revisits the museum's masterpieces through the prism of the fantastic world of cinema in all its aspects: the sets (Terry Gilliam quoting Gustave Doré), the costumes (the peplums according to David and Gérôme), the make-up (could Gollum's wild expressions be taken from Carriès?), the music, the editing...
It reveals as many hidden references in the history of cinema as there are nuggets in the museum's collections, proving that cinema could only have been born in the 19th century and that the Musée d'Orsay's collections contain the fundamental ingredients of our cinematographic culture.
French language
192 pages / 150 illustrations
Coédition Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais / Musée d'Orsay
