Mostly seen through an obscured lens, we only get the impression of images, but not their details. This makes the simple narrative of love seem so much more creepy and distant; this is pretty powerful stuff and despite being categorised under "surrealism", this plot-line is more satisfying than most American silents.

"A symbolic short by Man Ray seemingly about woman and desire. Intercut with scenes of a woman flirting, undressing and dating through distorted, dreamlike glass is various imagery that includes the mysterious starfish and its limbs, a crevice opening and closing, flickering fire, walls, a man chasing pieces of a newspaper in the wind, etc. all creating the effect of a difficult and obscure object of desire."

29 kasim 2011 & http://trenkel.blogspot.com/2011/11/man-rayin-letoile-de-mer-ile-sinemada.html (you can watch here)

Man Ray shoots through distorted glass to create an interesting impressionistic, almost mosaic effect. There's kind of a narrative here, but still pretty well-seated in surrealism. I didn't care for the snatches of poetry, even though that's what inspired the film. Scenes of newspaper dancing in the wind pre-dates American Beauty by some 70 years.