The Fountain of Arethusa (1936)
La fontaine d'Aréthuse
“La Fontaine d'Aréthuse” opens with what has been described as a “shimmering wash of sound in the piano, octave leaps in the left hand passing above and below repeated chords in the right,” a tune which apparently suggests the splashing waters of a fountain. The story “told” by the music involves a naked water goddess on the river shore, who is pursued by a hunter, before disappearing into thin air to join her water once again.
- Date of release
- 1936-01-01
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 6m
- Genres
- Music, Fantasy
- Director
- Dimitri Kirsanoff
Casting
- Sabine Earl — Aréthuse, the nymph
- Michel Gevel — Alphée, the hunter
- Tasso Janopoulo — Pianist
- Jacques Thibaud — Violonist
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