The Fountain of Arethusa
(1936)
★ 6.5 IMDb · 6 votes
Year: 1936
Runtime: 6 мин
Country: France
Director: Dimitri Kirsanoff
Cast: Sabine Earl, Michel Gevel, Tasso Janopoulo, Jacques Thibaud
Plot
“La Fontaine d'Aréthuse” opens with what has been described as a “shimmering wash of sound in the piano, octave leaps in the left hand passing above and below repeated chords in the right,” a tune which apparently suggests the splashing waters of a fountain. The story “told” by the music involves a naked water goddess on the river shore, who is pursued by a hunter, before disappearing into thin air to join her water once again.