Abel Gance's Napoléon
Directed by Abel Gance
With Albert Dieudonne, Yvette Dieudonne, Suzanne Bianchetti
Genre: History
Country: France (1927)
Part 1: Fri., Mar. 20 7:00 PM
Part 2: Fri., Mar. 27 7:00 PM
The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX 77005
This film is part of the Revivals film series.
"Never released in America on DVD… Abel Gance´s monumental re-creation of the rise of Napoléon is one of the most thrilling silent films ever made. It overflows with technical innovations—and climaxes in a three-panel (originally three-screen) "triptych." [This version is] Kevin Brownlow´s color-tinted and toned 1980 restoration, which has music by Carmine Coppola [father of Francis Ford Coppola]." — Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque