PARIS, April 20 — After a colossal 16-year restoration effort, Abel Gance’s seven-hour silent classic Napoleon will finally return to the big screen at the Cannes Film Festival...
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The project to restore the epic 1927 film began in 2008 when two film researchers discovered different versions of the film in Gance’s archives at the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris. The head of the restoration project, Georges Mourier, told AFP in 2021 that it had become “an act of madness”.It will finally see the light of day as part of the Cannes Classics section of the festival, which runs May 14-25 — the first time Gance’s cut has been shown in 97 years.
The film has long had a near-mythical status among cinephiles, not least director Francis Ford Coppola who owns many of the rights through his company, American Zoetrope, and presented an earlier restored version to widespread acclaim in 1981.The latest restoration effort was made fiendishly difficult because the original reels were scattered around the globe — some lost, some damaged, others mixed up or respliced, leaving up to 22 versions of the film in existence.
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