Rayon de soleil
Jean Gourguet's 1928 49-minute silent feels like a French precursor to Siodmak's 1930 "Menschen am Sonntag". It shows us how Parisians of the 1920s spent their Sundays, by following the progress of **** young people on their day off - a girl, her beau, and his two ******. The film is at turns comic, wistful and romantic. Like Siodmak's film, it is hugely evocative of a lost era...