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COMING SOON TO THEATERS BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE<\/span><\/p>\n | 2026 \u2013 104′ –\u00a0 Drama, Period & History, Films & Literature. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" COMING SOON TO THEATERS BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE THE GREAT ARCH\u00a0 | 2026 \u2013 104′ –\u00a0 Drama, Period & History, Films & Literature. Written by:\u00a0St\u00e9phane Demoustier. Based on the Book by:\u00a0Laurence Coss\u00e9 Directed by:\u00a0St\u00e9phane Demoustier. Starring:\u00a0Claes Bang,\u00a0Sidse Babett Knudsen,\u00a0Michel Fau, Xavier Dolan, Swann Arlaud,\u00a0Viilbj\u00f8rk Malling Agger,\u00a0Alessandro Bressanello,\u00a0Pierre-Francois Grunewald. Official Competition Cannes International Film Festival 2025 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,11,119,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coming-soon","category-drama","category-films-literature","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25910,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139\/revisions\/25910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}THE GREAT ARCH\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n
\nWritten by:\u00a0<\/span>St\u00e9phane Demoustier.
\nBased on the Book by:\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Laurence Coss\u00e9<\/span>
\nDirected by:\u00a0<\/span>St\u00e9phane Demoustier.
\nStarring:\u00a0<\/span>Claes Bang,\u00a0Sidse Babett Knudsen,\u00a0Michel Fau, Xavier Dolan, Swann Arlaud,\u00a0<\/span>Viilbj\u00f8rk Malling Agger,\u00a0Alessandro Bressanello,\u00a0Pierre-Francois Grunewald.
\n<\/span><\/span>Official Competition Cannes International Film Festival 2025 (Un Certain Regard selection).
\nIn French with English subtitles
\nA Cohen Media Group release. |
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\n<\/span><\/p>\n1982. French President Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand decides to launch an international architectural competition for the flagship project of his mandate: the Great Arch of La D\u00e9fense, aligned with the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\nAgainst all odds, Otto von Spreckelsen, a Danish architect, wins the competition.Overnight, this 53-year-old man, unknown in France, arrives in Paris where he is propelled at the helm of this pharaonic project.While the architect intends to build the Great Arch exactly as he envisioned, his ideas quickly clash with realistic constraints and the vicissitudes of politics.<\/em><\/div>\n