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- tara9990
- Description
- Menilmontant area of Paris in 1925. Made by Dimitri Kirsanoff (Estonia March6, 1899-France Feb 11, 1957). Emigrated to Paris with his parents in the early 1920s, he trained as a musician, studying cello at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris and playing music for silent films. He quickly became associated with the circle of young avant-garde ("impressionist") French filmmakers, and began making his own independently produced films on tiny budgets. These stylish, original, early films earned him a considerable critical reputation and were later deemed precursors of both French "poetic realism" and Italian neo-realism. Ménilmontant, Kirsanoff's second film, is also his best known. It was filmed during the winter of 1924-25, primarily on location in Ménilmontant, a poor working class suburb on the eastern edge of Paris which gives the film its name.
- Language:
- English
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