All the World's Memory

(1956)

★ 7.1 IMDb · 50 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1956

Runtime: 21 мин

Country: France

Director: Alain Resnais

Cast: Jacques Dumesnil, Agnès Varda

Plot

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.