Ménilmontant
Ménilmontant
Directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff • 1926 • 38m • ★ 7.4
Ménilmontant
Drama
Director
Dimitri Kirsanoff
Year
1926
Country
France
Language
No Language
murder
axe murder
partially lost film
short film
sisters
Summary
These are the footsteps of two sisters left adrift in the midst of a life from which their parents were torn away by a brutal murder, on the misty, weathered streets of Paris. Directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff, this quiet drama speaks entirely through the rhythm of the streets, without the need for words. Cast from the countryside into the gray void of the big city, these two young women are slowly swept toward different shores by their shared passion for the same street drifter. The camera wanders through Paris’s back alleys like a fleeting breath. That silent devastation lingering beneath the ashes leaves the viewer on the streets of Paris with every frame.
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