The 2024CannesClassics sidebar will open with a restored version of French filmmaker Abel Gances silent epicNapolean.
A major work of the silent era,Napoleanhas taken sixteen years to restore.
Filmmaker and restoration expert Georges Mourier and his team worked frame-by-frame and reviewed nearly 100 kilometers of film.
NapoléonCannes Film Festival.
The films original reels were thereafter scattered across the globe, some lost or destroyed.
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The film runs across two parts.
It will be released in French cinemas and shown on France Televisions and Netflix, Cannes said today.
TheCannes Film Festivalruns May 14 25.
