Falling Leaves (1912)
Falling Leaves
”A young girl tries to save her sister from tuberculosis by tying fallen leaves back onto trees.”
Why watch this film?
A classic of the silent film era, 'Falling Leaves' is one of the shorts by French filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché, the first director in history - and likely the only one of her time - who was unjustly relegated to oblivion for much of the 20th century due to lack of documentation of her work. Though it is a rudimentary short by today's standards, at the time it was highly innovative and avant-garde. The premise plays with poetry in its narration, representing the impending death as the literal falling of leaves in autumn, with an innocent girl trying to stop it. It is a beautiful movie and a great starting point to get close to the first filmmaker in history.
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When a doctor says her older sister will die of tuberculosis by the time the last leaf falls, a young girl takes his words literally and tries to save her by tying fallen leaves back onto trees with string.
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