The Great Arch review – a visionary architect crushed by the politics of prestige Claes Bang plays the Danish designer of Paris’s Grande Arche in a meticulous drama about artistic purity colliding with bureaucratic ego and national vanity At first glance, Stéphane Demoustier’s new drama about the construction of Paris’s Arche de la Défense appears to belong to the recent run of what you might call French brand-heritage pictures, which include the likes of 2021’s Eiffel or 2023’s Widow Clicquot . But adapted from Laurence Cossé ’s 2016 novel La Grande Arche, the film is not t… |