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The story of a creator fighting for recognition against the currents of their time is a familiar one, echoing through artistic histories from the studios of Mumbai to the ateliers of Paris. Beatrice Minger’s film E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea offers a focused, piercing look at one such struggle, centered on the significant yet often sidelined Irish designer, Eileen Gray.

Born into aristocratic privilege, Gray turned her back on it to pursue a fiercely independent creative life. The film wisely avoids being a sweeping biography. Instead, it anchors its narrative in a single, profound act of creation: her modernist villa on the French Riviera, E.1027. This was not just a structure of glass and concrete; it was a sanctuary built in the late 1920s with her lover, the architectural journalist Jean Badovici.

The house’s name itself is a secret code of their intimacy: E for Eileen,...

The third film in a decade about Gray tells – with an exasperating lack of passion – a story of explosive emotion, creativity and betrayal

There is some exasperatingly passionless and obtuse direction in this detached, sometimes almost somnolent drama-documentary about the extraordinary Irish architect and designer Eileen Gray, played here with a distracted air by Natalie Radmall-Quirke.

In the late 1920s, Gray designed and built a modernist villa on the Côte d’Azur for herself and her lover, the Romanian architectural journalist Jean Badovici (played here by Axel Moustache): she called it E.1027 But she quarrelled with him and impulsively moved out, leaving him in sole possession of this marvellous property – and then Badovici’s friend Le Corbusier, nettled by this brilliant work which was inspired by but possibly surpassed his own, painted frescoes all over the white walls. He then allowed the architectural world to assume E.1027 was his...

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Berlin-based Rise and Shine World Sales has picked up the rights for “E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea,” which is vying for the top Dox:Award at Copenhagen’s Cph:dox, one of Europe’s leading documentary festivals. Variety is debuting the trailer and poster, below.

Mixing archival footage and re-created scenes, this hybrid doc narrated in the first person takes viewers on a journey into the mind of Eileen Gray, a woman making her mark in a man’s world and one of the leading lights of modernist architecture.

It opens in the house that she built in Southern France between 1926 and 1929 together with fellow architect, Jean Badovici, her lover at the time. The name of the house, E.1027, is a cryptic marriage of their initials.

Considered a masterpiece of architecture, built in Gray’s signature sober and elegant style, the house is at the center of the narrative: when he saw it,...