A Story of Water

A Story of Water
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Directed byJean-Luc Godard
François Truffaut
Written byFrançois Truffaut
Produced byPierre Braunberger
StarringJean-Claude Brialy
Caroline Dim
Narrated byCaroline Dim
CinematographyMichel Latouche
Edited byJean-Luc Godard
Production
company
Les Films de la Pléiade
Distributed byUnidex
Release date
  • March 3, 1961 (1961-03-03) (France)
Running time
12 minutes
LanguageFrench

A Story of Water (French: Une histoire d'eau) is a short film directed and written by Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut and released in 1961. It recounts the story of a woman's trip to Paris, which is surrounded by a large flooded area. It was first shown publicly in 1961. The title is a pun on the title of the erotic novel Une histoire d'O. The film was shot in two days.[1] The film is dedicated to Mack Sennett.

According to film critic David Edelstein, introducing the film's presentation on TCM.com, Truffaut's screenplay was a "slight but reasonably coherent romance" which was altered significantly in the editing room by Godard, who added absurdist voiceovers and percussion music while cutting out most of the plot.[1]

The film is included as a supplement on Criterion's DVD/Blu-ray release of Truffaut's The Last Metro.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Edelstein, David. Intro to A Story of Water on TCM.com (July 19, 2013)


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