Those Who Worry
About Those Who Worry
Germaine Dulac sets two short pieces to records, under the titles Toute seule and À la dérive. In the first, Lilian Constantini sits at a café table with a drink, a missing tooth, and shadows under her eyes, while couples and children pass. She gets up, walks the streets, sees her face, and goes on until she is small in the distance. In the second piece the same actress plays a woman on the drift, rejected and alone in the same streets.
Cast & crew
More about Those Who Worry
Dulac made the six-minute short in 1928, just after La Coquille et le Clergyman. She described the two parts as impressions made while listening to two records. Georges Vallée is billed with Constantini. The French title is Celles qui s'en font.
Themes
Making
Dulac shot the café terrace and the narrow streets as the pictures for songs, not as a plotted drama.
Music
The images were cut to two records. A Lobster Films restoration plays the original accompaniment.
Preservation
A restored print with the musical track is on the Lobster Films DVD Retour de flamme. A copy is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- The two sections are Toute seule and À la dérive.
- A Dutch Wikipedia account of the film says the second section follows Constantini as a prostitute.
- Serge Bromberg's Lobster Films put a restored copy, with the original musical accompaniment, on the DVD Retour de flamme.
- One account dates the song recording to 1930, which is why some listings move the film to that year. The production date used here is 1928.
Scenes
- Constantini drinks at the terrace while couples walk past.
- She catches her own face and keeps walking.
- The second song picks up another woman in the same streets.
Also available
- Internet Archive (celles-qui-sen-font_1928)
- Retour de flamme (Lobster Films DVD)
