After years of fighting on opposite sides, Netflix and the French film industry are making nice. The streaming giant this week unveiled partnerships with the French National Film Board (the CNC) and the Cinémathèque Française, a non-profit group devoted to the preservation and promotion of French cinema culture.
Netflix, together with CNC, will finance a new restoration of Abel Gance's 1927 silent French epic Napoleon, considered a classic of world cinema.
The plan is to restore the so-called Apollo version of the film, considered Gance's definitive cut of the movie, which runs nearly seven hours, by May 5, the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's death.
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