5/10
AUTUMN MISTS {Short} (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1928) **
15 January 2014
Unlike the same director's MENILMONTANT (1926), with which it shares leading lady Nadia Sibirskaia (though not seen to similar advantage here), this runs for just 12 minutes. Unfortunately, its length is exclusively devoted to the less successful element of the earlier film, i.e. what is proudly but awkwardly described in a sub-title as "A Cine-graphic Poem".

In fact, all we get here basically is the apparently lonely heroine walking along the garden of her vast estate, her morose countenance paralleled by the gloomy ambiance one normally associates with the titular season.
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