"How to read the history of cinema without wrinkling your nose" could be another title for this book. The cinema of beauty, magic, and above all innovation tries to unfold within the pages of this enjoyable book. The birth and history of yesterday and today's seventh art through the eyes of a passionate cinephile and filmmaker, given with love and humor.

Big, small, and even smaller true stories co-star with events that were never confirmed by official lips, urban myths, shots, truths, or lies.

From the gallop of Muybridge's horse and Kuleshov's Mozzhukhin experiment, to how the cotton balls ended up in Marlon Brando's mouth and the cat in his hands. Why recently were Egyptian statues found buried in Santa Barbara, United States, and how did a Cornish game hen filled with toothpicks contribute to one of the most iconic sound effects? How was comedy born on the big screen and in which war film did helicopters briefly leave the set to actually bomb a neighboring village?
All this and much more you will find in this book overflowing with cinema stories.

"A book to learn, to laugh, a book for summer on your sunbed but also for the evening in your armchair, a book to become part of, according to Godard, 'the most beautiful fraud in the world'."