La Belle Nivernaise

This is the sound of rusty iron carried by the wind on the deck of a barge gliding slowly across the water. Directed by Jean Epstein, this silent film examines the quiet bonds that blossom among lives swept along by the flow of rivers. As the distance between a young adopted boy and the captain’s daughter who takes him in gradually transforms into a different kind of feeling, the weary texture of the black-and-white imagery envelops everything.