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El Dorado

1921 · 98 min

A slow, visually inventive silent melodrama that wraps you in its tragic, shadowy atmosphere and leaves a lingering ache.

Directed by
Marcel L'Herbier
Genres
Drama
Starring
Ève Francis, Jaque Catelain, Marcelle Pradot
Overview
In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to earn enough to care for her sick child. The boy's father Estiria, a prominent citizen, refuses them both help and recognition, fearful of jeopardising the engagement of his adult daughter Iliana to a wealthy nobleman. Iliana however slips away from her engagement party to meet her real lover Hedwick, a Swedish painter. Sibilla, in desperation after a further rejection by Estiria, sees an opportunity to blackmail him by locking the lovers overnight in their meeting-place in the Alhambra.

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Directed by
Marcel L'Herbier
Genres
Drama
Starring
Ève Francis, Jaque Catelain, Marcelle Pradot
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • betrayal
  • isolation
  • parenthood
  • grief
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour1
Realism6
Romance4
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
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Starring
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Cinematography
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Runtime
98 min
Country
France
Languages
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