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Strictly average movie

one of my absolute favorites!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Because many of the first films by french pioneer Georges Méliès are presumed lost, we are extremely lucky that the first film by the master survived at all. Even if their is no movie magic that he was known for I actually find this movie a lot of fun. It's enjoyable, good-natured, and energetic. This isn't just a mundane static scene about guys playing cards, it's a cheerful, fun look into a bygone era.At the beginning of Méliès's career, he had no movie magic. He still had yet to discover the film edit. So his earliest films basically were just remakes of the Lumière Brothers' movies, which basically showed people mounting horses, eating dinner, trains arriving in stations, and gentlemen playing cards. (This movie is a remake of the Lumiere Bros' "Card Party"). Only seven films made by Méliès in 1896 survive. Many of his early actualities do not, which is a shame and many of them are largely forgotten. This film has no real significance except for the fact it was the director's first. It is still an interesting watch, despite lack of special effects. On a side note, this is also one of the somewhat rare instances where almost all the actors in the film are identified. Two of the card players are Méliès himself and his brother Gaston; the girl is Méliès's daughter Georgette; the waitress is the Méliès family maidservant, Octavie Huvier. Only the third card player remains unidentified.

This is the film debut of master cinema magician Georges Melies featuring three men having a game of cards and because of the name Melies perhaps one might have expected more because there is no trick photography . It's just a mundane static shot of three men playing cards . In fact even the title is misleading because watching it you're more aware that they're ordering wine from a waitress who keeps appearing and disappearing in to frame and two of the men constantly puffing away on ciggies . That said being the film debut of Melies it's place in important film history is assured and we should be thankful that unlike so many of the director's earlier works it still exists and is easily accessible on the internet in 2013

Two men are playing cards while a third man is more interested in reading the newspaper. The man in the middle appears to be distracting the other two from the card game, but all are having a real good time. Apparently, alcohol is being consumed, as the middle man asks a little girl to have an older woman bring the trio a bottle. She brings the ordered alcohol and the men drink. The woman retrieves the fallen newspaper and smiles directly at the camera. In the end, the man in the middle seems to have captivated his companions attention. He should, he's Georges Melies. Presently, this is the renown filmmaker's first film.***** Une partie de cartes (1896) Georges Melies ~ George Melies, Gaston Melies, Georgette Melies

at this stage in the history of the cinema, there was no copyright protection for individual films, so successful efforts were often redone by competitors.... and the ways in which they wound up doing things differently tells us more about their weaknesses and strengths than their original works.This is Melies' version of the Lumiere Brothers' film of 1895 and while he imitates them adequately in terms of composition, it can be seen immediately that this is a Melies movie: the actors are much more flamboyant than those in the Lumiere piece.This is one of the many previously lost or infrequently seen Melies pictures that have been made available by Serge Bromberg, David Shepherd and a myriad of other hands in the newly issued DVD set GEORGES MELIES: FIRST WIZARD OF CINEMA. Required viewing for anyone interested in the history of movies ..... and a lot of fun.