User Reviews

The over 85-year-old "Experimental Treatment of a Hemorrhage in a Dog" is one of the longest titles from French documentary movie pioneer, but in terms of the runtime it is among his shortest works. This one here only goes on for 4 minutes and shows us in a black-and-white silent film from Painlevé's early days as a filmmaker how a doc is treated by a veterinarian. The next day, he is in good health again. In terms of contents, this film is pretty different from Painlevé's usual approach. The focus is just on one particular animal and not on a whole species. Apart from being very short, like I mentioned earlier, it also shows us humans which is not too common for Painlevé. Clearly he was still experimenting a bit with his approach to (animal) film at this point. But it's not a very interesting watch, not more interesting than a random visit at the animal doc. I do not recommend checking it out.