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La Roue (pronounced [la ʁu], 'The Wheel') is a French silent film, directed by Abel Gance, who also directed Napoléon and J'accuse. It was released in 1923. The film used then-revolutionary lighting techniques, and rapid scene changes and cuts.
The Wheel: Directed by Abel Gance. With Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier, Georges Térof, Séverin-Mars. A railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash. Years later when she starts getting suitors, he grapples with whether or not to tell her the truth about her parentage.
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- Drama
- Abel Gance
- 1923-02-17
Sep 29, 2023 · La roue met the fate of so many films of its era, cut down—by Gance himself—for international distribution, with great swaths lost to far-flung archives. That two-and-a-half-hour cut expanded to a four-and-a-half-hour reconstruction that Flicker Alley released on DVD in 2008. Reception was mixed.
Nov 20, 2019 · The mythology of Abel Gance’s epic film, La Roue (The Wheel), includes a short declaration from Jean Cocteau: ‘There is cinema before and after La Roue, as there is painting before and after Picasso’.
Starring Séverin-Mars, Ivy Close, Gabriel de Gravone. An epic masterwork of the silent era, Abel Gance’s LA ROUE (“The Wheel”) has in recent years been restored to its complete original form: a four-part, nearly seven-hour melodrama that reaches the heights of Greek tragedy.
5 days ago · La Roue streaming: where to watch online? Currently you are able to watch "The Wheel" streaming on Criterion Channel. It is also possible to buy "The Wheel" on Amazon Video as download or rent it on Amazon Video online.
An epic masterwork of the silent era, Abel Gance’s LA ROUE (“The Wheel”) has in recent years been restored to its complete original form: a four-part, nearly seven-hour melodrama that reaches the heights of Greek tragedy.
