Ménilmontant

Ménilmontant

1926
Drama, Mystery
Short Film
38m
After a grisly murder, two sisters move to the city of Paris to start anew. However, they find themselves at the mercy of masculine dominance and the unforgiving city-life.
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Ménilmontant

1926
Drama, Mystery
Short Film
38m
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Rated 09 Dec 2007
86
84th
A visually rich film with a haunting soundtrack, it follows the tragic life of two sisters through a well edited series of silent scenes. It took me about half the movie to get a sense of what was going on because of the complete lack of intertitles, but once I did it was a very rich and moving experience.
Rated 10 May 2014
78
88th
A wordless film that excels in visual expression. It stands on two legs: The unforgettable performance of Nadia Sibirskaia (AKA the woman who perpetually has her fingers on her lips), and the moody cinematography, which has every kind of shot and makes totally warranted usage of tricks like double exposure.
Rated 05 Jul 2017
76
92nd
An oddly arresting French Impressionist film. Like so many independent avant-garde directors, Kirsanoff started off with an early love of Gance-inspired montage at its most frenzied (this is instantly clear from the brutally abrupt ax-murder opening, and carries through to later scenes combining city streets, alarm clocks, and sex to surprisingly coherent effect). Alternating such moments with some slower, beautifully handled character sequences makes for a prepossessing whole.
Rated 18 Feb 2015
6
83rd
i have no idea what i missed the first time. i don't know if i even watched the whole thing. it follows a young woman who, after her parents' murder, moves to the city and becomes impregnated by some asshole. simple, and yet told with such delicacy and beauty.
Rated 02 Dec 2011
55
10th
#892
Rated 25 Mar 2017
60
62nd
Life in the big city of Paris ain't all gravy.
Rated 12 Oct 2008
80
92nd
This had a plot? :D
Rated 19 Aug 2013
63
20th
At times it has a kinetic energy that showcases some of the best editing from its time, not to mention some riveting imagery. But at other times it lingers on instances for too long and becomes dull, and the story is pretty damn uninteresting -- I'm not sure how many times it had been done back then, but it's been done better over and over again since the 1920s.
Rated 29 Dec 2017
73
69th
Too frenetic at the beginning to my tastes. Then gets better. Must have been amazing at the time.
Rated 16 Oct 2011
90
69th
Harika bir giris sekansi. Sessiz sinema donemi biraz daha uzun surse sinema cok farkli yerlerde olurdu belki.
Rated 19 Feb 2009
91
97th
With its disturbing ambiance and timeless acting, the film immediately swallows the viewer in a void-like gloom. The opening murder sequence is still genuinely disturbing and far more horrifying than most attempts in the modern horror genre. For a film so short and so old, it's one of the most compelling works of cinema I've ever seen.
Rated 12 Dec 2010
9
93rd
Part avant-garde and french-soviet montage, part realism and honesty; achieves moments of purity and it's true in spite of its melodrama. This mix shouldn't work so well. Direction of actors goes a long way, and the montage goes quiet as it progresses. The idea probably was the visualization of interior sentiment, directly.
Rated 20 Dec 2006
64
23rd
Rather dull, although it has a nice poetic sadness to it. Not as avant-garde as I expected.
Rated 28 Apr 2018
85
92nd
Salt Beyoğlu.
Rated 23 Oct 2019
80
90th
the scene that woman and stranger guy sat on a bench is one of the most dramatic scene i have ever seen.
Rated 20 Apr 2020
70
42nd
A couple are brutally murdered. Their 2 young daughters grow up and live together in the Ménilmontant neighborhood of Paris where they both fall for the same young thug. Interesting enough as a short film, but significant for how many novel visual tricks it uses, like double exposure shots. Nadia Sibirskaïa, director Dimitri Kirsanoff's wife, is radiant and steals the film.
Rated 27 Aug 2022
97
99th
At the end of her life, Pauline Kael said this was her favorite movie of all time, and one can easily see why ("In one scene she is seated on a park bench next to an old man who surreptitiously shares his food with her--it's as great as anything in Chaplin."). Perhaps not the most original story, but the art is in the way it's told. I kept thinking the camera technique and editing owed a huge debt to "Man with a Movie Camera"--until I realized that was made 3 years AFTER this.
Rated 30 Sep 2023
74
51st
Evocative short that starts with a bang and has some great moments, but was ultimately a tad too avant garde for me to really love it. A lot of the editing and camerawork is quite modern and the performances are pretty good. Worth seeing for sure.

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