SummaryEiffel (Romain Duris) has finished his collaboration on the Statue of Liberty and is pressured by the French government to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair. Eiffel simply wants to design the subway, but everything changes when he crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past (Emma Mackey). Their long lost, forbidde... Read More
Directed By:Martin Bourboulon
Eiffel
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
20% Positive
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70% Mixed
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10% Negative
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1 Review
Aug 11, 2022
80
Taken as a speculative romance, and in the right matinee spirit, it’s lushly engaging, with a star pairing that – appropriately – rivets.
Aug 16, 2022
60
The whole thing is performed with relish and high spirits, and the digital fabrications of the Tower itself, rising out of the ground in stages with hair-raisingly dangerous structural work, are entertainingly contrived.
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33% Positive
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11% Negative
1 Rating
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Jun 6, 2022
6
From the title it's obvious that this movie is about the famed engineer Gustave Eiffel, who created France's most famous landmark. This "freely adapted" drama follows his challenges to build the structure for 1889 Paris World Fair, despite protests and setbacks. Being that this is a French film, there's also a romance, which is meant to add depth to his dilemmas. While what is shown is interesting, the work on the tower lunges forward near the end without much additional exploration. His frustrated love affair doesn't add anything but time. If the filmmakers had focused more on the actual construction this might have been a fascinating historical chronicle. As it stands (pun intended), Eiffel is an attractive period piece that's only a ground-level look at the project.
Mar 7, 2023
4
Martin Bourboulon cria um filme chato, de fotografia muito feia e que não consegue sequer emociona mesmo com a trilha. Eiffel, por outro lado, não é grosseiramente ruim, mas não sai do lugar comum.
Para começar, Romain Duris até que atua bem e consegue passar a imagem de arquiteto visonário, mas com muito romantismo, literalmente. Os empresários são nada mais nada menos do que caricaturas, e de uma hora a outra embargam o empreendimento, o que faz com que seja uma busca idealista, meio que "por amor" ao projeto. Além disso, há um par romântico que torna tudo muito não orgânico na trama.
A fotografia é tão monotônica, de uma escuridão esquisita, que somente nas cenas finais a gente lembra de estar na cidade das luzes.
De toda a forma, a cena com os trabalhadores erguendo o empreendimento são razoáveis, e a história por trás (não sei até que ponto o filme se excedeu aqui) é muito interessante para pensarmos as relações internacionais na história geral. Tirando isso, o filme não entrega muita coisa, e rapidamente se tornará esquecível.
Aug 15, 2022
60
Eiffel is not unentertaining – it would pass the time pleasantly enough on a long-haul flight. Together, Duris and Mackey have a corset-twanging chemistry. But the foregrounding of a fictional romance over a feat of engineering does feel like a missed opportunity.
Jun 1, 2022
50
“Freely inspired by a true story.” That’s the filmmakers’ cunningly phrased hand-wave acknowledging the gap between actual history and the moony-eyed imagined romance proffered here. Still, it’s a curious deployment of the creative license: You’d think the construction of one of man’s greatest monuments would supply sufficient drama on its own.
Apr 20, 2022
50
Bourboulon hatches a second-rate romance, rather than detailing the rich, real-life drama that swirled around Eiffel’s controversial endeavor.
Aug 18, 2022
40
Despite some lovely cinematography and interesting insights into what makes the Parisian landmark so special, Eiffel is a forgettable forbidden love affair.
Jun 2, 2022
30
One can’t help but wonder if Eiffel is merely a lame fantasy or a particularly spineless form of mythmaking, whittling down as it does one nation’s politically loaded event to the equivalent of an Eiffel Tower key chain with an inscription reading “city of love.”
Dec 21, 2023
3
Il est fascinant de constater que ce monument magnifique est devenu le symbole d’une ville, d’une capitale et a fortiori d’un pays tout entier… dans le monde entier ! La Tour « Eiffel » est en effet une démonstration d’ambition, de savoir-faire et de génie… sans compter ses proportions uniques (souvent copiées, jamais égalées…) et son originalité, qui en font également une oeuvre d’art à part entière !Hélas, mille fois hélas, le film n’est pas à la hauteur de la Tour… il se traîne comme un rat qui a trop bouffé sur un trottoir parisien (grêve des éboueurs…. entre autres) ; il a dilué son sujet émérite dans une vague histoire d’amour à deux francs cinquante… à faire mourir de honte toute la bibliothèque Harlequin (qui est partie en auto-combustion !).
Et pourtant, ce n’est pas la faute de Romain Duris, non, non… même si je ne l’apprécie guère. C’est surtout la faute au film entier, à son scénar improbable, à son histoire mal adaptée et inadaptée… le film n’est bien sûr que vaguement inspiré des faits réels mais tout de même ! quelle incurie ici, à tous les égards, d’ailleurs ou presque (le pire concerne certains dialogues, consternants de maladresse ridicule… entre autres !).
Pour autant, les effets spéciaux sont utilisés à bon escient et s’avèrent de grande qualité, de même que la mise en scène très posée ou la photographie très travaillée… quoiqu’un peut trop sépia ici et là sans doute)… sans oublier la musique très digne (c’est du Desplats, ça ne tache **** pourtant, la matière était là, tout est là, il suffit de se sortir les doigts pour adapter ce projet pharaonique et c’est tout ! mais non, on a perdu -trop souvent et encore pire de nos jours- le génie, le talent qui ont fait de la France ce qu’elle est… et donc, on se retrouve encore avec un film de merde ! mais j’irai jusqu’à 3 quand même : le film m’a donné envie de regarder quelques documentaires sur la vieille dame de fer (qui a toujours eu une volonté de fer).
Production Company:
- VVZ Productions
- Pathé
- Scope Pictures
- Constantin Film
- M6 Films
- Canal+
- Ciné+
- M6
- W9
- La Région Île-de-France
- Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
- SofiTVciné 7
- Cofimage 31
- Cofinova 16
- SG Image 2018
- Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge
- BNP Paribas
Release Date:Jun 3, 2022
Duration:1 h 48 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Inspired by love, he created a masterpiece.
Awards
César Awards, France
• 3 Nominations
CinEuphoria Awards
• 2 Nominations
DIGITAL CREATION GENIE AWARDS
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination




























