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Romain Duris
Gustave Eiffel
Emma Mackey
Adrienne Bourgès
Pierre Deladonchamps
Antoine Restac
Armande Boulanger
Claire Eiffel
Andranic Manet
Adolphe Salles
Alexandre Steiger
Jean Compagnon
Philippe Hérisson
Edouard Lockroy
Jérémie Petrus
Edmond
Jérémy Lopez
Maurice Koechlin
Frédéric Merlo
Georges
Damien Zanoly
Émile Nouguier
Clémence Boué
Madame Lockroy
Julien Sarazin
Ouvrier boîte à sable 11
Josselin Baillarguet
Silhouette
Michèle Clément
Bougeoise
Juliette Blanche
Amie d'Adrienne
Sophie Fougère
Mme Bourgès
Philippe Richardin
Membre du conseil
Matthieu Piriou
Ouvrier
Stéphane Page
Invité Bourgès 2
Aurélien Luzeux
Ouvrier acrobate Tour Eiffel
Aurélia Frachon
Vendeuse de fleurs au Parc Monceau
Philippe Saïd
Membre du conseil
Dominique Pozzetto
L'huissier du Ministère
Benoît de Gaulejac
Les Banquiers
Hervé Masquelier
Les Banquiers
Joseph Rezwin
R. Milligan McLane
David Olivier Fischer
Acteur
Pierre Le Baleur
Ouvrier boite à sable

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Aug 15 2022

Romain Duris turns in a creditable enough performance but otherwise this is a rather lacklustre mix of romance and engineering that veers way too much to the former than the latter. The narrative tries to run the twin threads of his younger years - where he builds a bridge and falls in love with "Adrienne" (Emma Mackey) with a contemporary one that sees him bidding in a competition to design the Parisian entry for the 1889 World Fair. His plan to build a 300m tower wins - it beat the Mètro - but pretty quickly he faces industrial issues, strikes, banking confidence colly-wobbles and to add to h...