Rain
Director Joris Ivens
Countries Netherlands
Duration 17 min
Synopsis
"The rain we see in the Ivens film is not one particular rain which fell somewhere, some time. These visual impressions are not bound into unity by any conception of time and space. With subtle sensitivity he has captured, not what rain really is, but what it looks like when a soft spring rain dripped off leaves, the surface of a pond gets gooseflesh from the rain, a solitary raindrop hesitatingly courses down a window- pane, or wet pavement reflects the life of a city. "(in Bela Balazs, "Theory of Film", 1952)
"The rain we see in the Ivens film is not one particular rain which fell somewhere, some time. These visual impressions are not bound into unity by any conception of time and space. With subtle sensitivity he has captured, not what rain really is, but what it looks like when a soft spring rain dripped off leaves, the surface of a pond gets gooseflesh from the rain, a solitary raindrop hesitatingly courses down a window- pane, or wet pavement reflects the life of a city. "(in Bela Balazs, "Theory of Film", 1952)