Rien que les heures (1926)
- Directed by
- Alberto Cavalcanti
- Genre
- documentary film, silent film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 45 min
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 20 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
Alberto Cavalcanti's silent film shows a day in the life of Paris. It captures people, streets, and everyday scenes over 45 minutes.
experimentalobservationalpoeticcontemplativerhythmicurbandocumentary-like
What happens
Rien que les heures (English: Nothing But Time or Nothing But the Hours) is a 1926 silent city symphony film by Brazilian director Alberto Cavalcanti showing the life of Paris through one day in 45 minutes. Other noted examples of the city symphony genre include Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's Manhatta (1921), Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927), Andre Sauvage's Etudes sur Paris (1928), and Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera (1929). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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