Emile Vuillermoz

Max Ophuls directs this short film of Chopin's Valse Brillante.

“La Fontaine d'Aréthuse” opens with what has been described as a “shimmering wash of sound in the piano, octave leaps in the left hand passing above and below repeated chords in the right,” a tune which apparently suggests the splashing waters of a fountain. The story “told” by the music involves a naked water goddess on the river shore, who is pursued by a hunter, before disappearing into thin air to join her water once again.

A short by Marcel L'Herbier with music played by Claude Debussy with children's themed visuals.

Max Ophuls directs this short film of Chopin's Valse Brillante.

Max Ophuls directs this short film of Chopin's Valse Brillante.

“La Fontaine d'Aréthuse” opens with what has been described as a “shimmering wash of sound in the piano, octave leaps in the left hand passing above and below repeated chords in the right,” a tune which apparently suggests the splashing waters of a fountain. The story “told” by the music involves a naked water goddess on the river shore, who is pursued by a hunter, before disappearing into thin air to join her water once again.

A short by Marcel L'Herbier with music played by Claude Debussy with children's themed visuals.