Wow, strangely this has ended up being one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen. A "film poem" (cinepoems being popular at the time but a dead art now, unfortunately--I believe the last real cinepoem to be Tarkovsky's Mirror and I think Aronofsky's The Fountain may be bringing it back), it's about two lovers separated, codified by the country house that the woman is in and the metropolis the man is in. They wander, the editing informing their mental state, until finally a plot-point is revealed as the woman writes a letter to the man excited for their reunion. They travel to an intersecting point between their two different lives: a train station, both an iconic industrial symbol of transition and border-transgression, and a mutually even space between countryside and city. The meeting is the best ever filmed of that cinematic cliché: two lovers running at each other and--well, in this case, not embracing, actually. The film ends there. The effect is more powerful.
--PolarisDiB
--PolarisDiB