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A young man from the country, Frédéric, says good-bye to his family and his sweetheart Yvette in front of his family home and goes to the old city of Arles to attend the bull fight at Roman
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in order to give a new dimension to cinema as the public was beginning to get tired of simplistic comic or melodramatic films. Its object was "The adaptation, composition and cinematographic, photographic and phonographic representation, both in France and abroad, of literary and dramatic works by
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But Frédéric cannot forget the Girl from Arles. He keeps having visions of her either alone or with
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Christine Leteux wrote that L'Arlésienne is a genuine masterpiece. "Capellani shows a remarkable sens of pictorialism in his camera angles and lighting effects. The film even contains an astonishing 180-degree panorama. He uses double exposure with amazing virtuosity. Capellani manages to make us
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the street of the old city and vow eternal love. As he leaves her at her home and walks away, her former lover
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