From October 17 to 26, 2025, the Louvre turns the spotlight on a film festival that will thrill the Salle Michel Laclotte:"From David to Kubrick. La Révolution et l'Empire au cinéma". What's on the bill? Eleven screenings to revisit two blockbusters of French history - the Revolution and the First Empire - with bonus debates and meetings to fuel discussion after the credits roll. Tickets are €10 full price and €7 concessions.
This movie marathon accompanies the exhibition devoted to Jacques-Louis David, master of neoclassicism, committed revolutionary and official painter to Napoleon I. With his brush, he composed the visual sequence shots of an entire era: fiery tribunes, conquering emperors, collective upheavals. With his brush, he composed the visual sequence shots of an entire era: fiery tribunes, a conquering emperor, collective upheavals... All scenes that continue to inspire film-makers.
On the Louvre screen, you'll find the great classics that have left their mark on film: Jean Renoir's La Marseillaise, Abel Gance's monumental Napoleon, Stanley Kubrick's icy, painterly Barry Lyndon, and Éric Rohmer's L'Anglaise et le Duc. Between documentaries, rigorous reconstructions, critical accounts and poetic flights of fancy, each screening questions the role of the artist, the staging of power and the chiaroscuro memory of revolutionary ideals.
The Louvre offers a veritable festival of images and ideas, where the room becomes a stage for reflection, and where the dialogue between painting and cinema is played out without a break.
Dates and Opening Time
From October 17, 2025 to October 26, 2025
Location
Louvre Auditorium
Accès par la Pyramide
75001 Paris 1
Prices
Tarif Jeune: €5
Tarif Plein: €10
Booking
ticket.louvre.fr
