City Louvre

Focused on the inner workings of the world's most famous museum, City Louvre (1990) takes the form of one of the classic city symphonies of the 1920s: beginning at daybreak and ending at nightfall, the film chronicles the lives of urban dwellers at work and play. Housed in a medieval castle with its miles of hallways and hundreds of employees, the mighty Louvre does seem like its own city-state. But rather than focus on its familiar role as a monument to high culture, Philibert shows us the everyday life of the museum – and how it operates.