A man attempts to take a picture of a woman at the beach.A man attempts to take a picture of a woman at the beach.A man attempts to take a picture of a woman at the beach.
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This is, contentually, a waste of time. It's just not funny.
It is, however, interesting. It gives us viewers a look at a different culture, another time, another place.
It is worth seeing, for those reasons, and because Max Linder was in it.
Linder is another of those now-overlooked motion picture geniuses, of whom motion picture history is just filled. (Look at, for example, the end of Edwin Porter. He finished his life working in a factory, ignored by the industry he did so much to create.)
"Picture" does not really have a story. It is a vignette, and a rather pointless one.
But the elegant Linder set a tone and a style that American cinema ignored, replacing it with the Little Tramp and Fatty Arbuckle.
To know and to appreciate film history and film heritage, you really ought to see this movie.
It is, however, interesting. It gives us viewers a look at a different culture, another time, another place.
It is worth seeing, for those reasons, and because Max Linder was in it.
Linder is another of those now-overlooked motion picture geniuses, of whom motion picture history is just filled. (Look at, for example, the end of Edwin Porter. He finished his life working in a factory, ignored by the industry he did so much to create.)
"Picture" does not really have a story. It is a vignette, and a rather pointless one.
But the elegant Linder set a tone and a style that American cinema ignored, replacing it with the Little Tramp and Fatty Arbuckle.
To know and to appreciate film history and film heritage, you really ought to see this movie.
A flimsy Max Linder comedy with few fresh ideas and little in the way of laughs.
Did you know
- Alternate versionsTurner Classic Movies broadcast a 13-minute version of this film with an English title and an unidentified music score,
- ConnectionsReferenced in Loin de Hollywood - L'art européen du cinéma muet: Where It All Began (1995)
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