Fernand Pouillon, Le roman d'un architecte (2003)
• January 1st, 2003 • 0h 52min
Documentary
Overview
Constructing freestone buildings on the cheap, Pouillon made a name for himself at the end of the 1940s in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, shaking up his peers who only dreamed of towers and concrete bars. In Algiers, until Independence, he built in record time thousands of homes for the poorest, real urban projects inspired by traditional forms. In the Paris region, to build comfortable buildings quickly and well, nestled in the greenery, he becomes a promoter: this too adventurous bet leads him to prison and retains his reputation. Not very explicit about this complex affair, but seduced by a contemporary architecture that combines technical inventiveness and ancient references, Christian Meunier films by multiplying the angles of view. Today's lively atmospheres are interspersed with archive footage, while Pouillon's writings are read off. Moved, his collaborators evoke a demanding and generous man, with an infectious passion.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Freeports: The Beauty Of Tax Free Storage
Released on: 2021-11-02
Documentary
Documentary that exposes the secret world of these unknown tax havens. There is a global network of ...
Namatjira Project
Released on: 2017-09-05
Documentary
From the remote Australian desert to the opulence of Buckingham Palace - Namatjira Project is the ic...
Making Dust
Released on: 2023-10-01
Documentary
Making Dust is an essay film, a portrait of the demolition of Ireland's second largest Catholic Chur...
Julie Mendez - from PTSD to Art
Released on: 2013-03-01
War, Documentary
Julie Mendez served in the Iraq War. Finding herself on convoys engaging insurgents, she came to que...
Don't Lose Your Head
Released on: 2012-01-28
Documentary
Don't Lose Your Head was a DVD documentary concerning Doctor Who that was released on 28 January 201...
De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire
Released on: 2022-03-09
Documentary, TV Movie, History
Robert McGinnis: Painting the Last Rose of Summer
Released on: 2008-12-31
Documentary
Robert McGinnis' career as an artist is explored from the 1950s when he gained fame as a painter for...
The Louvre
Released on: 1978-01-01
Documentary
Lucy Jarvis -- the plucky camerawoman known for becoming the first Westerner to film inside communis...
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
Released on: 2005-01-01
Documentary
In 1935, Frank Lloyd Wright designed a country house for the Kaufmann family over a small stream in ...
I Needed Color
Released on: 2017-07-25
Documentary
Jim Carrey exhibits his talent as a painter and reflects on the value and power of art.
Canaletto & the Art of Venice
Released on: 2017-09-26
Documentary, History
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN open its fifth season with Canaletto & the Art of Venice, an immersive journey ...
David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts
Released on: 2017-11-21
Documentary
Widely considered Britain’s most popular artist, David Hockney is a global sensation with exhibition...
Cézanne: Portraits of a Life
Released on: 2018-01-23
Documentary
Dedicated to the portrait work of Paul Cézanne, the exhibition opens in Paris before traveling to Lo...
Two Museums
Released on: 2014-01-22
Documentary
The film juxtaposes/compares two museums: The Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, which Samuel Bickels...
In Residence: Ricardo Bofill
Released on: 2014-09-22
Documentary
There are houses, and then there’s Ricardo Bofill’s house: a brutalist former cement factory of epic...
Barcelone vu par Ricardo Bofill
Released on: 2003-01-01
Documentary
A native of the capital of Catalonia, the architect-urban planner, to whom we owe the Saint-Honoré m...
James Castle: Portrait of an Artist
Released on: 2008-04-12
Documentary
Deaf artist James Castle drew on his upbringing in rural Idaho as well as his profoundly silent inne...
Nous paysans
Released on: 2021-02-23
Documentary
In barely a century, French peasants have seen their world profoundly turned upside down. While they...