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06 June 2025 Anères (France)
Festival du Cinéma muet d'Anères: The Water Girl
Ignacio Plaza Ponce & Fanny Ménégoz - Festival venue
Program Info: Piano, clarinets, percussion : Ignacio Plaza Ponce Flutes : Fanny Ménégoz
The Water Girl by Jean Renoir with Catherine Hessling, Pierre Lesstringuez, Maurice Touzé 1924 / France / 1h23 / DCP Copy: Tamasa Distribution
A drunken sailor terrorizes his young orphaned niece, Gudule. She runs away and finds refuge with gypsies. But her happiness is short-lived, as her benefactors soon attract the wrath of a peasant. Fortunately for Gudule, her beauty has moved a young man, who tries to protect her...
Mr. Jean Renoir has just presented us with one of the most interesting films of the season. A work of measure and taste, The Water Girl, with the alternating cadence of its tableaux where the limpid freshness of rivers and canals contrasts with visions of nocturnal horror among which water is no longer the mirror of the light sky, but the dark shroud of the drowned, where the calm existence of a small provincial town contrasts with the agitation of a crowd drunk with vengeance, where the feverish sleep of a child becomes a whirling nightmare that ends with a fantastic ride in a stormy sky over the twisted tops of charred trees. The Water Girl reveals to us, in Jean Renoir, a director of great promise and who already possesses, in the present, a sure technique and a remarkable plastic sense. But also, The Water Girl brings us, all fragile with unhappy grace, tender, so tender to be childish and persecuted, Miss Catherine Hessling with the adorable face. Cinemagazine, 1924 – No. 50, December 12, 1924
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