Sisif, a railwayman, and his son Elie fall in love with the beautiful Norma (whom Sisif rescued from a train crash when a baby and raised as his daughter with tragic results. In its complete version La Roue lasts for 7 hours. Useless to say, the film is impossible to follow and we easily lose patiance after the first... Say, six? Five? Four? Three? Even 2 hours?... It is the slowest film ever made and full of artsy and melodramatic scenes, but under the technical aspects it is of course competent. This seminal film introduced many innovations in set design and construction, and cinematic devices.
