Peruvian-born, Netherlands-based filmmaker Heddy Honigmann's documentary about Paris's Pere Lachaise Cemetery isn't the morbid meditation on mortality you might think. Honigmann, the same filmmaker who found poetry on the streets and beaches of Rio in O AMOR NATURAL (1996) and classical music in the Paris Metro in THE UNDERGROUND ORCHESTRA (1998) uses the famed necropolis as a means of looking how artistic inspiration continues to live on long after the artist's death.
Long before Pere Lachaise became notorious as the final resting place of the Doors' frontman Jim Morrison, whose grave has become an unsightly shrine for his ever-growing fanbase, the stately...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
95 mins