Unfortunately this Kenneth Anger film runs 10 minutes more than that. Actually, the flow of the water is nice to watch, the colors are pretty great and the classical music is good to listen to, but it's simply not enough material for such a runtime. I would like to say that this not turning out so well may have been because of Anger's inexperienced being only in his mid20s when he made this, but this was already his 10th movie and he had been active for over 10 years at that point already as a filmmaker, so I cannot be more generous with the rating here. Overall, I have to say this was a disappointment. Most of his films are pretty much style over substance to this date. He is almost 90 right now and still making movies. Oh yeah, don't be fooled by the French title, there is no spoken language in here, so you can watch this if you don't speak the language. But why would you want to? "Eaux d'artifice", I cannot recommend.
Review of Eaux d'artifice
