Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities — Season 1, Episode 2: Paris 1928
Documentary • 60 min • 1 season, 3 episodes • ★ 7.0/10
Episode synopsis
Dr James Fox tells the story of Paris in 1928. It was a city that attracted people dreaming of a better world after the First World War - the year when the Surrealists Magritte, Dali and Bunuel brought their bizarre new vision to the peoplei when émigré writers and musicians such as Ernest Hemingway and George Gershwin came looking for inspirationi where black musicians and dancers like Josephine Baker found adulation, where Cole Porter took time off from partying to write Let's Do it and where radical architect Le Corbusier planned a modernist utopia that involved pulling down much of Paris itself.
About Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities
Dr James Fox tells the story of three cities in three exceptional years - cities whose artists and thinkers, writers and musicians set the world on a new course.