Review by mrdonleone

you want to see the very principles of experimental filming? don't hesitate watching 'La Cartomancienne', a short film work of pure genius. you get to see lights that transcend into images like Busby Berkeley would adapt in his 'Gold Diggers ...' series. you see philosophical images which raises questions faster than answers, like the scenes from a David Lynch movie, only sixty years later. you see unclear things and entities in the water of a lake, as Kenneth Anger would do in his 'Eaux Artifices', thirty years later. in fact, the whole picture can't be reviewed without making comparisons with Maya Deren's 'Meshes of the Afternoon'. they contain both almost the same story in other pictures. our conclusion is that there would be no experimental film today without 'La Cartomancienne' in 1932.