A Trick of the Light Reviews

While in France the Lumière brothers first movies exhibited through its newly patented Cinematographer, Berlin brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky, bioscopio invented the first version of the movie projector, which projected eight frames per second.

The movie is divided between past and present with continuous flashbacks temporary. The past tense is recreated with techniques reminiscent of the first silent film, with all its technical and funny tricks, of course, black and white diluted. Here tells the story of the development of new apparatus for projecting movies in an old warehouse and the various vicissitudes that accompanied it. The zeal with which he wanted to preserve his invention was not copied by any industrial spy, and the whole of history is presented through a little girl, the daughter of one of the brothers. Unfortunately, his invention was delayed and became technically witnesses in Paris of the first screenings in the cinema hall of the Lumière.

The present tense is gaining ground towards the end of the film and shows the production team, including Wenders himself at home in that same girl that served as a narrative link, now converted into her eighties, which is crumbling memories with incredible lucidity and enormous sympathy at the same time. This is probably because I prefer to point the great sense of humor of the old woman, who says, roughly: "Well, the film is well made ​​... despite some license taken you. For example, my father never wore glasses, but well, it gives a more intellectual appearance... "