Open air screening - L'Inhumaine by Marcel l'Herbier

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of Fernand Léger's death, the team at the Musée national Fernand Léger invite you to an open-air screening on Saturday 30 August, starting at 7pm in the museum gardens.

7PM - MUSICAL INTERLUDE

MUSICAL WARM-UP - VINYLS ONLY
Come and enjoy this musical set, in the first part of the evening, and use the garden areas for a picnic with your family or friends!

8.30 pm - PROJECTION

L'Inhumaine de Marcel L'Herbier 

The film tells the story of Einar Norsen, a scientist madly in love with Claire Lescot, a ruthless singer who breaks the hearts of all her suitors and ends up poisoned by one of them. Terrified at the thought of living without her, Einar transports Claire to his laboratory to bring her back to life using a machine of his own invention.

Pioneer of the artistic avant-garde and experimental cinema, Fernand Léger designed one of the film's sets and wrote a drawing for the credits.

Eager to achieve a true synthesis of the arts, L'Herbier teamed up with the greatest creators of his time: major figures of Art Deco such as the architect Robert Mallet-Stevens and the furniture designer Pierre Chareau, the musician Darius Milhaud, the fashion designer Paul Poiret... L'Inhumaine was thus seen as a manifesto of this resolutely modern aesthetic and its innovative dimension was sometimes acclaimed, sometimes criticised.

Released: 24 October 1924
Running time: 135 min
Discover the restored version in colour, silent with musical accompaniment

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Free screening in the museum garden, at dusk (around 8:30pm).
Admission free, subject to availability. Booking is strongly recommended, via the Affluences plateform

Please remember to bring your picnic, cushions, plaids, folding chairs and other items to enjoy the screening in comfort. No seats will be provided. No refreshment or catering facilities on site.

Access to the site:

Free car parks at the museum and in Biot town centre, subject to availability.

 museum car park: 18 spaces
 parking des Bâchettes: 330 spaces
 parking de la Baume :46 spaces
 parking du Chemin Neuf : 13 spaces
 parking Saint-Jean : 58 spaces
 parking de la Fontanette :141 spaces

To locate these car parks, please consult the adress list

This event is organised by the National Museums of the 20th Century in the Alpes-Maritimes, in partnership with La Bande Passante, a collective exhibition, training and production space dedicated to still and moving images and sound, and the Beaulieu cinema.

Launched in 2022 to coincide with the Fernand Léger and the Cinema exhibition, the aim of this collaboration is to echo the exhibitions presented in the museum and the artists celebrated, as in the case of the film L'Inhumaine, whose sets were designed by Fernand Léger and plunges the artist into the adventure of cinema. This ambitious project paved the way for new encounters
and film collaborations.

Anonymous, Fernand Léger posing alone in his set for the laboratory of L'Inhumaine, 1922, photograph, BNF. Extract from the restored version of the film and draft credits for L'Inhumaine, 1923, donated by Georges Bauquier, 1995, Musée national Fernand Léger collection. DR © Adagp, Paris, 2025