Find here audio and video documentaries dedicated to Gustave Moreau, his career and his home.
A step in the museum: Gustave Moreau (season 1, episode 17)
June 2023, directed by Charles Lavillanie - Pictura Films, produced by Figaro TV
In June 2023, Figaro TV produced a 13-minute documentary episode at the Gustave Moreau Museum. Charles Villeneuve de Janti, then recently appointed director of the establishment, introduces the artist, his home, and three of his landmark works.
Broadcasting channels for Figaro TV: DTT Île-de-France: Channel 34 / Free: Channel 904 / SFR: Channel 468 / Bouygues: Channel 305 / Orange: Channel 345
Art museum to (re)see: the Gustave Moreau museum
November 2019, directed and produced by Museum TV / Urubu Films
The art-dedicated channel Museum TV produced an episode of its Musée d'Art à (re)voir series on the Gustave Moreau museum in November 2019.
To be found on their website at this link (subscription access)
The world's greatest painters - Gustave Moreau
2016, directed by Jacques Vichet for Museum TV
In 2016, Museum TV dedicated an episode of its series The World's Greatest Painters to the work of Gustave Moreau.
To be found on their website at this link (subscription access)
Free admission: The painter Gustave Moreau
2016, produced by France Télévisions and Tangaro Production
Gustave Moreau, the worker assembler of dreams
1998, directed by Bernard Boespflug, produced by Les Films du Tambour de Soie, Paris Premiere, La Cinquième and RMN
Bernard Boespflug paints a portrait of Gustave Moreau through his works and his house museum in this medium-length film.
The film was produced in partnership with the Gustave Moreau museum.
Gustave Moreau
1961, short documentary directed by Nelly Kaplan, released on DVD by Frémeaux & Associés and the Gustave Moreau Museum
In 1961, Nelly Kaplan invested the collection of the Gustave Moreau museum to make this short film. For director François Porcile (Défense du court-métrage français, collection 7° Art. Editions du Cerf), "Nelly Kaplan's position vis-à-vis of Moreau's painting is equivalent to that of Alice visiting Wonderland. We are invited on a delirious, demented journey through a fantastic universe, an imaginary world adorned with jewels and studded with gems, an irrational and fascinating setting [...]. If Moreau's art consists in depicting women, not as 'art' objects, but as feline, cruel and disturbing creatures, like Pentheles or Messalina, it is also his art of transporting us into the imaginary world, making us believe in it and integrate us into it. This is the approach taken by Nelly Kaplan, who, leaving her images to our reflection, and on a final shot of the Gustave Moreau museum, invites us, through the voice of Loleh Bellon, to get to know him better. She says simply: 'Go and see for yourselves if you don't want to believe me."
The DVD of this film is available from the museum reception store for €19.99.