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The Waterer Watered

Original title: L'arroseur arrosé
  • 18951895
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1m
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7.1/10
5.3K
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The Waterer Watered (1895)
  • Short
  • Comedy
An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.
IMDb RATING
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5.3K
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  • Director
    • Louis Lumière
  • Stars
    • François Clerc
    • Benoît Duval
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  • Director
    • Louis Lumière
  • Stars
    • François Clerc
    • Benoît Duval
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    • 25User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
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    François Clerc
    • The Gardeneras The Gardener
    Benoît Duval
    • The Boyas The Boy
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      • Louis Lumière
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    • Trivia
      Was the first movie to have a one-sheet poster designed to advertise a single film.
    • Connections
      Edited into Louis Lumière (1968)

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    Slapstick, 1890s style
    L'Arroseur Arrosé is a cry from the depths of the proletariat for social emancipation, whereby the disenfranchised masses represented in a life-justifying performance as the Boy can only find justice through subversion and revolution. Indeed, the conclusion of this epic drama can been seen as a confirmation of the inherent violence in a Hegelian dialectic of class conflict; the chilling figure of the Gardener (a possible reference to ecclesiastical authority?) viciously suppresses the rights of the Boy to self-expression. The perennial nature of this conflict is undermined when both parties rush out of the "garden"; no resolution is possible except mutual annihilation.

    Or, it could be a piece of light-hearted fun, as Lumiere recognised that the novelty of seeing pictures of factory workers and trains moving was wearing thin, and needed to be backed up with plot. It'll raise a smile for a few seconds, as a memento of an age with less demanding audiences.
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    • Jul 9, 1999

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    • Release date
      • 1896 (Finland)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • None
    • Also known as
      • Tables Turned on the Gardener
    • Production companies
      • Lumière
      • Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 minute
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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