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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20040218
Author:Hoberman, J

SCANNERS LA TERRE Directed by Andre Antoine Milestone

Out of the vaults, this largely unknown and newly restored 1921 adaptation of Emile Zola's La Terre (The Earth) is a remarkably direct transposition of the French novelist's ferocious naturalism to early cinema. La Terre doesn't change one's sense of film history as drastically as did Milestone's most recent release (not yet on DVD), Piccadilly. But it does attest to the existence of the neorealist impulse long before neorealism. Director Andre Antoine had staged La Terre at his own Theatre Antoine in 1901, but there is nothing of the ...

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