Fern Flowers (S)
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In Fleur de fougère (1949), he slowly pans along a medieval banquet table of Aesopian animals, stopping by each one for a quick comment or joke. Choosing to film fables at a time when cinema was embracing brash and sophisticated modern idioms, Starewicz might have seen himself as a preserver of an ancient tradition. It was as if he were drawn again and again to shedding light on the frailties of mankind by endowing the small animals he ... [+]