Back from America, Galaor, actor and adventurer with a big heart, finds Lise, his adored cousin. The young girl is about to marry against her will the banker Moriang, who knew how to win her father's favors by saving his factories from bankruptcy. But Moriang plots to accuse Galaor, who has become a formidable rival, of theft.
Jan 1921
Le mogli e le arance is characterized by a wonderful sereneness. It is the kind of quietude which many of us connect immediately with the south. Everything seems to be in its perfect place, and time is just passing. In the setting of a sanatorium a nobleman is practicing idleness and slow-motion mind games. Does it sound boring? Yes, it does. But it is not, the uneventfulness is definitively enthralling. The film director tries to narrate time, time itself, as such, for its own sake: a rare experiment.
Oct 1917
