The U.S. had its Wright brothers, France its “Light” brothers.
A few years before Orville and Wilbur piloted the first flight, Auguste and Louis Lumière (coincidentally, the French word for light) were innovating in a different sphere – the new medium of cinema. The siblings shot some of the first motion pictures ever made, beginning in 1895, on equipment of their own design.
“When [Louis] Lumière turned the crank of a beautifully crafted metal and wooden device, the technical achievement of his invention made history,” remarks Thierry Frémaux, chief of the Cannes Film Festival. He makes that observation in Lumière, Le Cinéma!, a documentary he wrote, directed and narrated that’s now playing in select cities in the U.S., through Janus Films. It opens in Los Angeles on April 25 and begins streaming on the Criterion Channel on May 1.
In the film, Frémaux serves as our guide
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