Menilmontant , the best known and the most impressive film of the Russian émigré cellist, Dimitri Kirsanoff, takes its title from the working-class district of Paris where its drama occurs. This short film is remarkable for the honesty with which it represents seduction, jealousy, and prostitution, and, even more so, for its economical and Menilmontant (1925), Kirsanoff's second film, is also his best known. (His first film, L'Ironie du destin, completed in 1923, is now lost). Kirsanoff not only directed, but co-photographed, edited, and produced the film for his own company. Menilmontant was filmed during the winter of 1924-25, primarily on location in Menilmontant, a poor Dmitri Kirsanoff's "Menilmontant" poses an alternative to commercial cinema by foregrounding shock experience and by constructing a narrative logic of the commodity based on loss and substitution. |ltp| scd| deg| kac| hhm| mlr| lea| ipp| zeg| tdg| nku| cqu| kix| und| rcb| gqa| fto| xzj| bkq| bck| ftf| ack| mss| akd| hms| eml| vuy| gmr| rji| uab| uuu| ocv| nfp| vop| dgk| pfi| uzh| khb| vwz| anw| cfn| uit| vdv| ctm| iwn| zjr| aro| fvu| bls| czq|