One of two mid 1930s musical shorts made in France by Ophuls, part of a planned series called Music and Cinema..
Emile Vuillermoz
France
If you have exactly six minutes to spare today, yes, Valse brillante de Chopin is absolutely worth a quick look.Piano lovers and vintage camera nerds will find it pretty neat, but if you want a real story with characters, you're gonna hate this.It is basically a music video from 1936. The famous director Max Ophüls jus...
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Max Ophüls
Richard Smith
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"If you have exactly six minutes to spare today, yes, Valse brillante de Chopin is absolutely worth a quick look.Piano lovers and vintage camera nerds will find it pretty neat, but if you want a real story with characters, you're gonna hate this.It is basically a music video from 1936. The famous director Max Ophüls just wanted to see how a camera could "dance" along with classical music.The pianist here is Alexander Brailowsky. His hands move so incredibly fast they get blurry on the old film st..."
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