1913 Russia: when a sheltered daughter is taken by a banker to a restaurant she doesn't know her father works at, she is saved from being seduced and comforts herself later with the more respectable admiration of her piano teacher..
If you have eighty minutes to spare today and want to feel sad in a very specific, 1930s French way, Les yeux noirs is actually worth your time. Anyone who loves dusty old melodramas with too much piano music and intense staring will eat this up. But if you need things to happen fast, or if you hate characters who ma...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
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"If you have eighty minutes to spare today and want to feel sad in a very specific, 1930s French way, Les yeux noirs is actually worth your time. Anyone who loves dusty old melodramas with too much piano music and intense staring will eat this up. But if you need things to happen fast, or if you hate characters who make terrible life choices, you should probably skip it. 🍷 The plot is basically about this girl Tanya—played by the incredibly cute Simone Simon—who doesn't know her dad is actual..."
Jean-Pierre Feydeau, Viktor Tourjansky, Jacques Natanson, Robert Thoeren
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