E.1027 - Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea

A love triangle of jealousy in the Parisian art scene of the 1930s is brought to life in a stylish docufiction about the iconic artist and architect.

The Irish artist, Eileen Gray, created some of the most iconic furniture of the 20th century, so when she focussed her unique artistic vision on developing a house for herself on the Riviera in 1929, the result was a modernist triumph. Director Beatrice Minger reconstructs the dramatic story of Gray and the house that Le Corbusier amazingly managed to convince the world he had built himself.

A stunningly beautiful and cinematic docufiction where the inspiration from Gray is present in lines, colours and shapes – but where they serve the narrative of a brilliant female artist who spent a long life in the shadow of her male colleagues.