Rien que les heures Drama comedy - 1926 - B/W- Silent
Director : Alberto CAVALCANTI
47 minutes
Visa # 152294
Isan # 0000-0005-5E50-0000-Y-0000-0000-9
Production : Néo film
Distribution : Les Films du Panthéon
With : Blanche BERNIS, Nina CHOUSVALOWA, Philippe HERIAT, Clifford McLAGLEN
Restoration in 2 K with the collaboration of EYE Filmmuseum and the BFI National Archive with the support of the CNC and the Cinematheque française (Paris) .
|
 |
SUMMARY
Rien que les heures is the first of the cinema’s "city symphonies", a non-fiction genre that seeks to capture the daily life of a city in all its dusk-to-dawn diversity. Cavalcanti’s film about Paris combines the fictional and the factual in a fascinating hybrid form, employing superimpositions, split screen, wipes, and an assortment of other effects, as well dramatized scenes. One of the major achievements in French avant-garde cinema and a still topical “document about the lack of work, about the lives in miserable places.” (Cavalcanti)
|
