Changing Landscapes

00:00:00 The Unification of the World

00:01:11 Shed the pastoral, even fantastic aspect

00:01:56 It raises interest, concern and reassurance at the same time.

00:02:41 on which we have deliberately turned our backs.

00:03:18 Ugliness, undeniably

00:04:05 Every day in the countryside, the roads open enormous wounds

00:05:10 we founded museums and we restore monuments -

00:05:57 but in the smoke of the old factories' chimneys

00:06:42 Here, the hand of man, together with chance

00:07:26 The factories, aged by the years and by fog and coal dust

00:08:14 they have retained their proportions, structure, profiles

00:08:58 Sometimes, not much is needed to find ourselves in fantasy.

00:09:42 endowed with a more mysterious power.

00:10:48 It was the first, in time and nobility, modern means of transport

00:11:39 It gives it a transparency, a fineness of lace

00:12:27 But here the sun, far from transforming it

00:13:40 have taken their motifs from the industrial landscape.

00:14:13 this one, for example, by Léger

00:14:43 that allow us to harvest more easily.

00:16:54 Paris owes to it one of its most beautiful sites.

00:17:28 show the timidity of the builder.

00:18:32 owes nothing to Greek, Roman or medieval pastiches

00:19:34 This isolated area of Paris has kept its end-of-the-century charm

00:20:30 and, like this brickyard, is transformed into a cowshed.