If you loved Lumière & Company, try The Salt of the Earth

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Lumière & Company

1995 · dir. David Lynch, James Ivory, Ismail Merchant, Spike Lee, Lasse Hallström, Jaco Van Dormael, Zhang Yimou, Liv Ullmann, Michael Haneke, Wim Wenders, Andrei Konchalovsky, John Boorman, Arthur Penn, Patrice Leconte, Cédric Klapisch, Hugh Hudson, Peter Greenaway, Abbas Kiarostami, Costa-Gavras, Gabriel Axel, Yoshishige Yoshida, Theo Angelopoulos, Raymond Depardon, Claude Lelouch, Youssef Chahine, Jerry Schatzberg, Alain Corneau, Francis Girod, Vicente Aranda, Fernando Trueba, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Sarah Moon, Bigas Luna, Nadine Trintignant, Merzak Allouache, Claude Miller, Gaston Kaboré, Jacques Rivette, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Régis Wargnier, Lucian Pintilie

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The Salt of the Earth

2014 · dir. Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

What they share

Both films are directed by Wim Wenders, and they both carry the bittersweet mood tag, and they sit in Documentary territory. If that's the register that drew you to Lumière & Company, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Salt of the Earth is

Ansel Adams if he shot people. Sebastião Salgado's life as a social-issue photographer is recounted by his son and Wim Wenders. The film surveys his stark black-and-white photos of human suffering, then pivots to his environmental work. A portrait of an artist's late-career change of heart.

If you loved Lumière & Company, try The Salt of the Earth

Lumière & Company

The Salt of the Earth

What they share

What The Salt of the Earth is

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