L'Atlantide (1932)
9/10
So very beautiful
6 February 2011
Warning: Spoilers
If you're expecting an action filled bit of camp desert adventure this isn't the movie for you. If you're happy with an almost surreal look backward into time and film making you're going to love this.

Every scene was worth capturing and putting into a frame on your wall. From the dreamy starkness of the desert to the marvelously vulgar flashback of the Paris dancers my eyes just couldn't get enough.

I've read several reviews that complained the story was slight and or incoherent but I didn't feel that way. Dreams don't have to be epic tales or follow a strict pedestrian logic and I was happy that this dream of a film allowed me to feast my eyes and wonder.

The score was almost as gorgeous at points as the camera work, flowing from one theme and bursting into another sometimes shockingly but always beautifully.
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