Jon Mirsalis on Piano A lost King Vidor silent found in the Cinémathèque vaults and now restored! Alain Corneau writes, "King Vidor is the filmmaker of the deep South in its most beautiful and cruel contradiction: nostalgia for its past grandeur but acute awareness of the utter irrelevance of its current moral values. In 1920, Vidor will film 'live' this familiar world, at the very moment of its disappearance°" Florence Vidor stars as the daughter of a fallen aristocratic family, trying to save her ne'er-do-well brother (Roscoe Karns) from the results of his alliance with a corrupt mayor. "The South is there, almost as in a documentary, and all of Vidor is already there: characters devoured by their internal demons, figures stuck in a social environment they try to escape, epic inspiration, a sense of excessiveness°and scorn for every kind of power, which is irreparably corrupt°.The African-American community is really present in this film, very 'visible' and without an ounce of caricature, and yet: 1920!°Vidor is only beginning to astonish us!"