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Ballet mécanique (short - 1924)

  Genre: Short

Directors: Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy
Writer: Fernand Léger
Cast: Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy, Katherine Murphy, Katrin Murphy, Kiki of Montparnasse
Runtime: 16 min.
Release Date: 24 September 1924 (Austria)
User Rating: 6,8/10

Review: "I would not recommend this film to anyone not interested in the cubist painter Leger, or in the dada and surrealist films of the 1920s. Fascinating for its primitive use of montage and eye-line match, the film is just an experiment with different rhythms and images. Your experience may differ grandly depending on the soundtrack that accompanies it. Most videotapes produced of the film have dinky little organ melodies that really take away from the ballet-like beauty of movement that Leger was going for. In the end, the film's value lies in its historical and fine art historical importance."
Written by Jeff Dantowitz (imdb.com)



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