Le Grand Rex: Behind-the-Scenes Interactive Cinema Studios Tour

Explore Le Grand Rex’s behind-the-scenes cinema studios with a 45-minute interactive audio-guided tour and access to working film sets.

Getting started

Present your ticket at Rex Studios and pick up your audio guide, available in 6 languages. Follow the signs to join the interactive tour at your indicated start time.

What to expect

Le Grand Rex: Rex Studios

Step inside Le Grand Rex, a monument of French cinematic heritage, and explore Rex Studios as an immersive walkthrough experience. Across approximately 45 minutes, your audio guide leads you through a series of themed spaces that follow the creation of a film from idea to screen.

Features

• Discover the magical world of cinema as you move through a 45-minute interactive audio-guided tour that traces each step of the movie-making process, from initial concept through to the finished film.

• Use an audio guide in 6 languages, available in French, English, Italian, German, Spanish, and Russian, so you can follow every explanation in the language that suits you best.

• Enjoy access to film sets and effects, walking through constructed sets while you observe special effects, tricks, and technical setups that reveal how on-screen illusions are created.

• Go into backstage areas and archives that are normally out of public view, where you see the backstage area along with archived images and materials that document the cinema’s history and productions.

• View the building’s original 1932 interior decor as you progress, noticing preserved architectural details that show how Le Grand Rex looked when it first opened as a landmark Parisian cinema.

Wrapping up

Your circuit through Rex Studios ends back inside Le Grand Rex, leaving you free to continue exploring the public areas of the cinema or depart at your own pace.