Sunday, December 06, 2020

Le roi des aulnes (1931)

 Based on the poem by J.W. Goethe, written in 1782.

English title: The Erl King

A man is riding with his son when their horse suffers a fall and the boy is wounded. They take shelter in a nearby house. The boy isn't feeling well, but the man must continue his journey. They go through a forest, and the child has hallucinations.

Rather boring translation into images of a famous poem; the images are nice to look at, but they don't capture the emotional strength of the poem.

Rating: 35

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