

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
Lumière & Company was directed by John Boorman, Michael Haneke, Costa-Gavras, Wim Wenders, Raymond Depardon, David Lynch, Lasse Hallström, Cédric Klapisch, Claude Lelouch, Alain Corneau, Francis Girod, Spike Lee, Vicente Aranda, Abbas Kiarostami, Theo Angelopoulos, Yoshishige Yoshida, Fernando Trueba, Hugh Hudson, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Zhang Yimou, Ismail Merchant, Sarah Moon, Arthur Penn, Bigas Luna, Nadine Trintignant, Jerry Schatzberg, Merzak Allouache, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Miller, Gaston Kaboré, Jaco Van Dormael, Gabriel Axel, Jacques Rivette, Idrissa Ouedraogo, James Ivory, Patrice Leconte, Peter Greenaway, Liv Ullmann, Régis Wargnier, Youssef Chahine and Lucian Pintilie.
Lumière & Company holds an average rating of 6.4/10 on TMDB, and it lands best with fans of documentary and drama. Join the discussion below to add your take.
Lumière & Company runs for 1h 28min, and was released in 1995.
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