A Story of Water (1961)
"Une histoire d'eau" (original title)

A young woman is going to Paris by bus, but when she steps out of her house she discovers that her garden and the whole village is flooded with water. With a boat and a bike she succeeds to... See full summary »

Directors:

Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut

Writers:

Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut

Stars:

Jean-Claude Brialy, Caroline Dim, Jean-Luc Godard

Cast

Credited cast:
Jean-Claude Brialy	...	The Young Man
Caroline Dim	...	The Girl
Jean-Luc Godard	...	Narrator

Storyline

A young woman is going to Paris by bus, but when she steps out of her house she discovers that her garden and the whole village is flooded with water. With a boat and a bike she succeeds to reach a dry spot in the village. There a young man in a car offers her a lift. They drive around in circles, trying to find a way out of the area, but all ways are blocked by the water. Concurrently with the ever rising water the emotions within the two young people also start rising. At last they find their way out of the flooded area. When they reach Paris and the young woman looks up at the Eiffel Tower, she knows that she is going to spend the night with this man.

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Plot Keywords:

paris france

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Genres:

Romance | Short

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

3 March 1961 (France)

Also Known As:

A Story of Water

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company Credits

Production Co:

Les Films de la Pléiade

Technical Specs

Runtime:

18 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin ('Friedrich Holderlin') was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism.

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Connections

Featured in Two in the Wave (2010)

User Reviews

Boring and Uninteresting Monologue

In February, the heat melts the snow in the Alpes and Ile-de-France, flooding the area of Villeneuve Saint Georges. A young woman (Caroline Dim) wants to go to Paris, but she finds that the buses are not traveling. She takes a lift in a car driven by a young man (Jean-Claude Brialy). While trying to find a way out of the flooded area, they get close to each other until they finally reach the Eiffel Tower.

What a boring and uninteresting monologue this experimental "Une Histoire d'Eau" is! Fortunately it is a short and there is no time to sleep. I was absolutely disappointed with such fiasco, since the authorship is signed by Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. The originality is in the final credits narrated by Caroline Dim; and that is all. My vote is three.

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