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Regen (Rain , 1929)

Ivens approaches to man, to catch the daily reports of its existence. This documentary, in fact, reproduces the Amsterdam before, during and after rain. The pointed roofs against the blue sky, the clouds and then cross the stormy gusts from twisted linen, and then the rain falls slowly, then more and more dense, rooftop, on umbrellas, on the canals, the windows of vehicles, regurgitating from manhole covers, expanding into large gorges crossed by the wheels of cars across a series of images suggests the lyrically eloquent poetry of humble things, certain dialects different attitudes of urban life. And the company comes into play, with the humble who go on foot and are mired in fast cars and impersonal. The camera is constantly moving, curious and pervasive: catches the passer-by who raises the collar and extends up to the first drops fall, he stops watching the boatmen who continue their work, is lost among the passers-by hurried or rears to consider them from the rooftops, focuses on benevolent consider a cluster of curious umbrellas in the space of a street. When the rain begins to lose their umbrellas close, the reflections disappear magic water (L. Gizio, Joris Ivens in Cinema, III, 54, 15 January 1951).