Tonight on TV: It’s a symbol of Paris… It’s also an old-fashioned romance that has drawn more than a million and a half viewers

In 2021, the general public discovered Eiffel on the big screen, an ambitious biopic of Gustave Eiffel, directed by Romain Duris, as the famous French engineer. Tonight you have the opportunity to (re)discover this hugely popular film that has attracted over 1.5 million viewers to cinemas!

Directed by Martin Bourboulon, who recently released The Three Musketeers: Milady, Eiffel tells the story of Gustave Eiffel, who has just finished collaborating on the Statue of Liberty. He was at the peak of his career then.

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The French government wanted him to create something spectacular for the 1889 Paris Universal Exhibition, but Eiffel was only interested in the Metropolitan project. Everything changes when he meets his childhood sweetheart again. Their forbidden relationship inspires him to change the skyline of Paris forever.

What he will create next is obviously the Eiffel Tower, the symbol of Paris and generally one of the most famous monuments in the world.

A grand romantic adventure that combines the spectacular and the intimate, the Eiffel carries Romain Duris And Emma Mac, the Netflix series Sex Education, is top-notch entertainment. A generous film in which we applaud the quality of historical reconstruction, which is remarkable.

Martin Bourboulon wanted the Eiffel Tower (especially the various stages of its construction) to be sufficiently represented to fulfill the promise of a spectacular film. The filmmaker wanted the special effects to always appear in the background (as opposed to the characters in the foreground).

“I wanted to create an immersive side, fixed on the spot, without emphasizing technical skills”he says. “For this, I was able to rely on my designer Stephen Tylason and an excellent reconstruction of Paris at that time.

For digital visual effects, I was able to count the BUF personallyOlivier Cove which just worked Blade Runner 2049.” For reference, we have seen worse…

Tonight on the M6 ​​at 9.10pm.

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