The Real Thing

The Real Thing (2018)

May 1st, 20180h 55min

Documentary, TV Movie
76%

Overview

A smaller scale Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées can be found just outside Shanghai; a copy of St. Peter’s in Rome can be found in Yamoussoukro, in the Ivory Coast: a journey over three continents to see the architecture of imitation, the uncanny world of the fake.


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