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...Emile Zola's "Le Reve," the next motion picture to be presented under the auspices of the French Talking Film Committee, will be shown on Thursday and Friday, January 26 and 27, at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, it was announced yesterday by Mrs. E. K. Rand, chairman of the committee. The picture, which is adapted from Zola's masterpiece, has been one of the most popular pictures in France during the past year...
...contrast to most of Zola's plays, "Le Reve," which was written in reply to critics who accused Zola of too much realism, is a clean, idyllic production...
...genuine human feeling; the smiling rascality and the jovial bonhommie of the French shines through the haggard mask of the flesh. Dreyfus is not burdened with the martyrdom so often found in literature, and the sketches of the principals in the trial have a delightful vivacity. The impression of Zola is of somewhat alarming proportions, but thoroughly healthy. The spectator is given the idea that either Shahn did the work in this gallery when he was under different influences, or that the subject is so far removed from his own age that he can treat it in a more detached...
...more dramatic than didactic. It introduces with too much profusion and too little clarity the documents which lead to the conviction of Dreyfus but it is explicit in dealing with later developments of the case: the imprisonment of Dreyfus on Devil's Island; the efforts of Emile Zola and others to establish his innocence; the trial of the real traitor, Major Esterhazy; the subsequent recall and rehabilitation of Dreyfus. The picture suffers from the technical weaknesses of most films manufactured in England but it recreates for its audiences the excitement which made the Dreyfus case a scandal, a tragedy...
...between creativeness and photography. But the author has taken a cause, has attempted to find the Universal in a mining town. It may be there, but his efforts to prove "the torrent and ecstasy of life" are hopelessly inadequate. The love of John Donnelly, a raw Irish miner, for Zola, an alluring if somewhat incongruous prostitute, forms what plot and motivation there is. With a painstaking that is almost embarrassing. Mr. Brinig devotes himself to an exhaustive analysis of his characters, and finally they, under this pressure, disappear into a rarified atmosphere, incompatible with the gusto of his background...