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Sunday, Mar 19, 2000
The Making of Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent
Please note: In French only. A beautiful and perceptive documentary on the making of one of cinema's most strikingly inventive films, Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent. Jean Dréville's own camera traverses the bridges above L'Herbier's sets to capture the scope of this director's vision and his use of multiple cameras, which Georges Sadoul described in French Film: "Here the 'portables' are let loose in a veritable ballet of their own-withdrawing, advancing, dropping from ceilings, and rising from the floor, turning in circles like horses on a roundabout." We see L'Herbier delicately directing actors in an embrace and organizing the frenzy of the Paris Stock Exchange, a location borrowed during its Easter closure. Dréville's film, with a delightful soundtrack, is an informative prelude to L'Argent.
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