My Thursday Movie - THE STRANGER FROM THE GREAT ARCH

Comedy drama by Sébastien Betbeder starring Blanche Gardin, Philippe Katerine, Bastien Bouillon - France - 1 hour 42 minutes

In 1983, François Mitterrand decided to launch an international architecture competition for the flagship project of his presidency: the Grande Arche de la Défense, aligned with the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe! To everyone's surprise, Otto von Spreckelsen, a Danish architect, won the competition. Overnight, this 53-year-old man, unknown in France, arrived in Paris where he was propelled to the head of this pharaonic construction project. And while the architect intended to build the Grande Arche as he had imagined it, his ideas quickly came up against the complexity of reality and the vagaries of politics.