Fire TV? Open Downloader and enter eplayer.live/tv The eplayer app runs on Fire TV Stick and Android TV Not a TV? Standard view
Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements poster
Film ★ 6.5 175 votes

Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements

1931 English
Play

eplayer saves your place to your account, not to this browser — start here and finish in the Android app.

Without sound, in three movements. Title cards declare that what a person likes and his manner of liking them reveals character. There are long looks at forms and rhythms. The film begins and ends with the sea: the tide coming in, small breakers running up on a beach. In the first movement, rocks appear, light and dark play on water. From time to time, machines turn. The light makes dappled patterns. In the second movement, a leafy tree branch gives way to water then shots of the sky and clouds. The third movement returns to the shore, with long takes looking out far, past the beach to outcroppings under the horizon. Small breakers interrupt the patterns of light on water.