French Friday Movie 

 Drama COMEDY / FRANCE, denmark / 2025 / 107 MINS / pg

In French  with English 

Director: Stéphane Demoustier

Cast: Claes Bang, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Xavier Dolan, Swann Arlaud, Michel Fau

1982. President François Mitterrand has launched an international competition to design the flagship project of his term: the Great Arch of La Défense, a building to match and complement the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe. To the surprise of everyone, the commission is won by an unknown 53-year-old from Copenhagen, Otto von Spreckelsen. An outsider with only a few modernist churches to his name, the stunning submission – taking the form of a perfect white cube – becomes the talk of the capital.Spreckelsen and his wife Liv arrive in Paris to commence work, overseen by the project’s shrewd managing bureaucrat. However, the purity of Spreckelsen’s design is quickly tested not only by budgetary constraints but the vicissitudes of politics and von Spreckelsen's own inexperience, forcing the couple to consider whether the pursuit of perfection is worth the emotional and physical toll.

"Captivating. Constructed with great finesse. A seductive, charming and intelligently accessible film, bringing to light the unique career of a forgotten creator."
Fabian Lemercier CINEUROPA

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