Visages d'Enfants

Jacques Feyder - 1925
Long shots, real feeling for the landscape (a mountain film, at times). Lovely low-contrast photography. Focus on flowing water and the real 'woodniness' of where they live. Vertical levels used. Long shots of conversation (body and a bit), with a few analytical cut-ins.
Some interesting use of P.O.V.; start from one's view on another, stay ong enough on that other so the scene becomes theirs, and the reverse shot back is a new point of view on what was our own vantage point.
Interesting and affecting story, confronting a difficult theme of a stepmother, that avoids patronising, for all the rather melodramtic landscapes it plays out in.