From a Futurist play the director had staged, this update of Greek tragedy features a modern banker chained to his desk as punishment for having stolen gold..


There is a moment, seventeen minutes in, when the camera glides across an ocean of carbon-copy clerks, their heads bobbing like piston rods, and the film stock itself seems to sweat ink. That sweat is the first clue that Prométhée… banquier is not content to merely update myth; it wants to atomize it, then inhale the...

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" There is a moment, seventeen minutes in, when the camera glides across an ocean of carbon-copy clerks, their heads bobbing like piston rods, and the film stock itself seems to sweat ink. That sweat is the first clue that Prométhée… banquier is not content to merely update myth; it wants to atomize it, then inhale the irradiated dust. Marcel L’Herbier, fresh from staging Ivan Goll’s futurist cabaret, treats celluloid like a balance sheet: every frame a debit, every cut a credit. The result is ..."
Marcel L'Herbier
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