Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier

1967-07-23 | 29 min

Making a documentary on Le Corbusier is not easy, because he is undoubtedly the architect most familiar to the general public but also the most unknown. If most people know his great achievements, such as the Cité radieuse of Marseille, the pavilions of the Cité universitaire de Paris or the Tourettes convent, many are unaware of his works in Moscow, Rio de Janeiro or Chandigarh. Roy Oppenheim pays a vibrant tribute to Corbusier, dismissing the criticisms and darker facets of the character. It presents the career of this pioneering architect, as well as his thinking, the essential principle of which was aimed at the development of human beings and the balance of society. Light, space and greenery are integrated into his large futuristic cities, because according to him the eyes of the inhabitants should be drawn into the distance and not into their neighbor's bathroom.

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris

André Wogenscky

André Wogenscky

Heidi Weber

Heidi Weber

Share on social media

More Like This

Tin Tan
Visconti: La verdad del melodrama
A la diestra del cielo
I Am Heath Ledger
Framing Britney Spears
Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace
Big Pun: The Legacy
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Dalida pour toujours
Doris Day: It's Magic
Alain Delon, a unique portrait
Robert De Niro: Hiding in the Spotlight
The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
Je vais tuer Hitler
Crumb
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Never Turn Your Back On Sparks
The Last Man on the Moon
Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942–1984
Pierre Cardin — A Figure of Modernity