Pauvre mère

⭐ Featured Review

"A woman is working hard at her sewing machine while her daughter plays with a doll. The child, bored, looks out the window and tumbles to her death. A year later, her mother, driven mad, dies. Director Albert Capellani uses the current cinematic techniques very tellingly to show the woman's agony, with a fine mixture of dissolves and cuts. For 1906 this is a very advanced movie. The unnamed actress chews the scenery in a stagy manner, but given the situation, it does not seem overdone. Capellani's career would continue for many years. His intelligent and inventive techniques would ..."