Schwarzer's most boring film Johan Schwarzer, who gave the world one of the earliest erotic tapes, pleased even at the beginning of his creative career, but as you can see, no director can not at least once not hit his face in the dirt, thereby causing disappointed spectator sighs. Cinema only recently turned ten years old, when Schwarzer began to secretly shoot and underground screenings of his films, which today would be sold in sex shops or immediately posted on the Internet.
But not the modern Eve. It's one of Schwarzer's most unfortunate works, and it seems to have no place anywhere. Are you expecting erotic scenes? They're hardly here. Do you expect something funny like The Powers of Hypnosis (1908)? And forget it! The whole film is a tedious story about adultery stretched out for six minutes (not so little at that time), which tries to make fun, but it does not turn out very well. At first, the husband runs away to his mistress, pretending that he is late for a business meeting, then the guessing wife begins to have fun on the side. All of this is presented in the forehead, without any jokes that silent movies are so famous for. And, of course, as is often the case, the silent film suffers from a lack of subtitles, which only adds to the frustration. It is important to understand that an erotic film can become candid and without naked characters, if the topic of sexual attraction is present in conversations. And it turns out that there is neither one nor the other.
Even more surprising, even the scenery, which is also famous for the cinema of those years, look boring and monotonous here. The office of the main character and the hall in the restaurant are furnished almost the same, and when there is a change of scenes, the bewildered viewer begins to ask a question to which not so much want to look for an answer, because the potential of the tape is exhausted on two letters, one of which, moreover, the operator is long trying to catch in focus.
In the end, this is not an erotic film, not a comedy, but just a story about an imperfect relationship, which can only interest very ardent fans of films of the time. This is not the Johan Schwarzer we love.
3 out of 10