An Exclusive First Look at the Eiffel Trailer

Everyone knows what the Eiffel Tower looks like, but what’s less clear is how one of the world’s most recognizable buildings came to be. In the new film Eiffel, director Martin Bourboulon (Divorce French Style) tells the story of engineer Gustave Eiffel and how the project he created for the 1889 Paris World Fair—one, it seems, that wasn’t even his first choice—became something more than he had ever anticipated.

Here, Town & Country is exclusively debuting the trailer for Eiffel, which is due to premiere in U.S. theaters June 3. The movie stars Romain Duris as Eiffel, Emma Mackey (of Sex Education) as Adrienne Bourgès, a long-lost love of his, and features a cast including Pierre Deladonchamps and Armande Boulanger.

It’s a film based in history but made with storytelling at the forefront, and serves as a beautiful reminder that behind even the most important buildings in the world are human stories—about love and longing and the efforts to make ourselves seen.

“I am tremendously proud and honored to present this film in the United States,” Bourboulon tells T&C, “and so pleased to have the opportunity to tell you the hidden story of one of our most iconic monuments.”

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