

Paris, 1913. Gaslight coughs through the fog while a ducal carriage rattles past urchins who could be its own illegitimate progeny. Inside that carriage sits the titular gosse—a boy whose only wound thus far is a creased silk sleeve—yet within the film’s first three minutes the directors fling him into an urban labyr...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Charles Burguet

Charles Burguet
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" Paris, 1913. Gaslight coughs through the fog while a ducal carriage rattles past urchins who could be its own illegitimate progeny. Inside that carriage sits the titular gosse—a boy whose only wound thus far is a creased silk sleeve—yet within the film’s first three minutes the directors fling him into an urban labyrinth that swallows heirs and beggars with egalitarian appetite. Silent-era audiences had seen waifs fall from grace before, but few filmmakers rendered the plunge with such surgic..."
Charles Burguet, René Hervil, Louis Mercanton
France

