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Awesome Movie

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

I was waiting for it to get interesting. It never did. It's lines, man. They appear and disappear and stuff. Big deal. There was already a lot of innovation in the film and animation world at this point in history. I don't get what's impressive about these particular lines. Maybe there's some sort of context missing here. But Jeez Louise... I was waiting for this thing to start and then just wanted it to end. Speaking of lines, did you know that IMDb requires a minimum of ten lines in a review? If the text dialog box I'm typing into is any indication, then I have three more to go after the break, which actually happened between the words "after" and "the" just now. Of course, by the time this review goes to press it'll be formatted differently. Of course, your browser's text setting will definitely come into play here.

I will not deny that it probably took a lot of effort to make "Symphonie diagonale", but the outcome is still a boring watch. Do not be fooled by the french title or the Swedish director, but this is a German film. Eggeling lived in Germany at this point and died a year later. This is probably also the reason why he did not make any other films as he was fairly prolific in other areas of art. This is silent and black-and-white as it was usual for that era, but I must say this is not on par with what Richter and Ruttmann did at this point. And apart from that, it is far far away from the works of some of the finest silent film actors that came out around this time as well, even a couple years earlier. Animation was clearly nit at its best yet at this point, but it developed quickly. I do not recommend "Symphonie diagonale". Nothing memorable to see here.

Diagonale Symphonie, what to expect? some strange movie, and indeed, it turned out to be a very strange light effects movie, where you keep wondering what you are looking at. is it a piano? is it a glass? is it a chicken? is it a wig? it's really hard to say, because the little differences with each picture of light you get to see, really change the global frame you get to see. is it the sun? is it a knife? actually, it's not quite that funny, because as a viewer, I want to know what I'm looking at. maybe the title means something... yes, it could be instruments. that would explain a lot. instruments, shown by light, maybe it means standing in the spotlights, to be famous, perhaps this movie is about being famous.

With this movie, Eggeling found a new way of artistic expression that was followed later by Hans Richter, Oskar Fishinger, Walter Ruttmann and Norman McLaren.Eggeling was trying to explore new paths, new manners, and he really did it. This new media, cinema, brought something that painters such as Eggeling himself could never reach with their paintings: time. Including a new dimension in their artwork was something very challenging for them. It was like mobile paintings. And this is exactly what Eggeling built up in this Symphonie Diagonale.Eggeling uses *only* images (some geometrical animation) to make music! Yes!, that's it! I know it sound rare but he did it! Just try to imagine how, without any sound, just by showing us moving drawings, Eggeling makes us feel rhythm, musical patterns and figures. I would say that, even if the viewer is not a musical expert, he/she will surely discover, at least, the basics of music (rhythm, for instance).Eggeling's masterpiece is a trip into music, a magical illusion and a sensible picture of music through a different language. Something nobody should miss.