French Film Festival 2021 (Shaw)
Eiffel
埃菲尔铁塔
Language
French with English subtitles
Director
Martin Bourboulon
Cast
Romain Duris, Emma Mackey, Pierre Deladonchamps
Synopsis
Having just finished his collaboration on the Statue of Liberty, celebrated engineer Gustave Eiffel (Romain Duris)is on top of the world. Now, the French government is pressuring him to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but Eiffel simply wants to design the subway. Suddenly, everything changes when Eiffel crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past. Their long lost, forbidden passion inspires him to change the Paris skyline forever.