Screening as part of the Yamba Cinema FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 24th July - 7th August.
Genre: History/Drama/Biographical Drama
Director:Stéphane Demoustier Starring;Claes Bang, Michel Fau Sidse Babett Knudsen, Xavier Dolan, Swann Arlaud,
Awards; WINNER - 2026 LUMIÈRE AWARDS - Best Screenplay
OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2025 CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The Great Arch is based on the true story of Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, a virtually unknown Danish architecture teacher who won an international open competition in the 1980s to design Paris's iconic Grande Arche de la Défense.Spreckelsen and his wife arrive in Paris to commence work, overseen by the project’s shrewd managing bureaucrat. However, the purity of Spreckelsen’s design is quickly tested not only by budgetary constraints but the vicissitudes of politics, forcing the couple to consider whether the pursuit of perfection is worth the emotional and physical toll. Inspired by remarkable true events, THE GREAT ARCH depicts a near-mythic story of both grand and lost illusions; a reminder that architecture, like cinema, is not just about one person's vision, but also collective perception.
