The Tenth Symphony

A composer marries a woman with a past; the man from the past blackmails her and courts the composer's daughter; and the composer writes his grief as a symphony, performed in a recital scene staged as if the film itself were music. Abel Gance uses superimpositions and tinted light, and Séverin-Mars plays the composer. Impressionism arrives in French cinema with a piano. 1918, eighty-eight minutes.