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Bookmark this pageSunrise (1927)
Director: FW Murnau
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Apart from its sheer poignancy, the main achievement of Murnau's classic silent weepie is how it puts pep into pap. Its folksy fable is distinctly unusual: a love triangle dissolving into an attempted murder is only the start; two thirds of the movie is actually about a couple making up. The tension is allowed to drop in a glorious jazz-age city sequence, and then twisted into breaking-point as a journey of murderous rage is repeated. But its dreamlike realism is also to be enjoyed: when lovers appear to walk across a crowded city street, into (superimposed) fields, and back to kiss in a traffic jam, you have an example of True Love styled to cinema perfection. Simple, and intense images of unequalled beauty. DMacp.Author: DMacp
Cast & crew
Director: FW Murnau
Producer: William Fox
Cast: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing, J Farrell MacDonald full cast
Rated: 15
Duration: 95 mins
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