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Building Bastille (2021)

None | Canada | English | 76 min
Directed by: Leif Kaldor
8.3

In 1982 the new French president Mitterrand opens a blind competition, to build an opera at the site of the notorious Bastille prison The jury seems to have found the best design, by prominent American architect Richard Meier. Or so they thought. Until the Minister of Culture blanches and stumbles through the name Carlos Ott, Canadian. No one has heard of him and he has never built anything. They chose the wrong guy? Hastily informed, Carlos flies to Paris with an expired passport and is tossed into an airport holding cell for immediate deportment. Official panic ensues. Things get worse from there. But like French politics, nothing is what it appears. A year later when Jacques Chirac is elected Prime Minister, he hates Mitterrand and works to stop the Opera When Carlos Ott receives Chirac's stop work order, the money is cut off. It seems that all the sacrifice is for naught. Building Bastille is a feature length documentary that tells the comic, dramatic and tangled story of modern history's greatest case of mistaken identity and seized opportunity.

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Release Date
Netherlands
(Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam)
2021-10-09
Sweden
(Arch Film Lund - Lund International Architecture Film Festival)
2021-10-16
Also Known As (A.K.A.)
Building Bastille
(Original title)
Building Bastille! The Tangled and Improbable Story of the Opera Bastille
Canada (English title) (long title)
Building Bastille
New Zealand (English title)
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Parent Guide
Sex & Nudity
Unrated
Violence & Gore
Unrated
Profanity
Unrated
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
Unrated
Frightening & Intense Scenes
Unrated