Today's films from the Cine Club's film list took us to the most emotional layers of cinema. We watched "The Fever" (1921) by one of the first theorists of cinema, Louis DeLuca, and Dimitry Kirsanov's brilliant "Ménilmontant" (1926). Both tell the story of the destinies that were distorted after the First World War, but not with words, but with looks, movements, and silence. These are films where silence "speaks" louder than any dialogue.

While Kirsanov's "Ménilmontant" is a real montage poem, DeLuc's "Fever" appears like a metropolis burning from within: tense, restless, psychological. The shots flow like memories, disjointed, yet intensely emotional.

These films remind us that cinema wasn’t just a way to tell a story in the beginning; it was an art form for experiencing. And today, as technology has advanced, those old shots still have something we don’t often find in new films: pure, honest emotion. Sometimes you have to go back to the roots to understand where the magic of cinema began.