Rhapsody in Two Languages (1934)

Directed by

Gordon Sparling

Country

Canada

Runtime

10 min

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a short documentary about Montreal in the 1930s. It shows daily life in the city with a musical score and little narration.

livelynostalgicobservationalrhythmiccelebratoryupbeatatmospheric

What happens

Rhapsody in Two Languages is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Gordon Sparling and released in 1934. The most famous film in the Canadian Cameo Series of short documentaries, the film is a portrait of life in the bilingual and bicultural city of Montreal during the Great Depression era. Considered a city symphony film, it is set predominantly to a musical score by composer Howard Fogg, although it features small snippets of narration by Corey Thomson. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• The Devil's Share (2017)
• My Real Life (2012)
• Ville-Marie (1965)
• Les Philharmonistes (1971)
• À St-Henri le cinq septembre (1962)
• My Mother's Letters (2017)
• Expo 67 Mission Impossible (2017)
• 1000 plateaus (2014)