A Story of Water
- Jean -Claude Brialy: young man
- Caroline Dim: Girls
- Jean -Luc Godard: narrator
A history of water ( Original title: Une histoire d' eau ) is a French short film by Jean -Luc Godard and François Truffaut in 1961.
Action
A suburb of Paris is haunted by a great flood. Despite the floods, a young woman is determined to reach the center of the French capital. In rubber boots she makes her way. Soon she tries to get ahead by hitchhiking. A young man she will eventually with. All roads are, however, several meters high flooded, so they stop the car and have to continue on foot. Before they reach the center of Paris, they come closer.
Background
Jean -Luc Godard used unused footage of a flood in Paris, which was his colleague François Truffaut filmed in 1958. Godard dedicated the resulting short film the silent film director Mack Sennett.
A history of water was shown on March 2, 1961 in Paris for the first time in public.
Criticism
At- A- Glance stated that the act in itself " taciturn " and that a narrator at the place of the dialogue kick, " as he makes whimsical observations about life ." However, the photographs of the flood were " nice and give the film a lyrical atmosphere."