it doesn not need say that sergei eisenstein be one of cinema most significant innovator and and his mastering of the montage be forever to alter how film be make and perceive by audience . i can not confess to be eisenstein great admirer not through any aversion to his work and but simply due to inexperience . aside from the the battleship potemkin ( 1925 ) and a prerequisite for any budding film buff and i would previously only see his debut effort glumov diary ( 1923 ) and a brief and plot less short that be rather difficult to come by . sentimental romance ( 1930 ) be co direct by eisenstein and grigori aleksandrov and who work together on several occasion . this be the pair first venture into talkie and and i must admit to be impress by the film complex mastery of this new medium . dialogue be absent and with the exception of the lone female protagonist melancholy opera performance and and rhythmic editing be use to synchronise the music with the accompany image . imdb inexplicably list sentimental romance a a comedy short and which be odd since there isn not a trace of humour in sight . instead and this be one of the sad film i have see in week and a mournful and bittersweet ode to inescapable loneliness . i do not know what the singer ( play by mara griy ) be sing about and but her solitary plight really break my heart . there be really two side to eisenstein and aleksandrov film . the first and comprise the opening five minute or so and be a frenetic and zany montage of tree fall down and intercut with crash ocean wave and which be splice so ingeniously into place that i could swear i saw a shot of water actually engulf a forest . then everything slow down a bit and and eisenstein briefly step back from the edit console . the singer be introduce a a silent silhouette against a brightly light window and and the camera catch her movement smoothly and gracefully . though likely inspire by the ever more popular surrealist work of the late 1920s and 1930s namely un chien andalou ( 1929 ) and h2o ( 1929 ) and the blood of a poet ( 1930 ) i like this effort much well . it lack the pretension of it contemporary and and have considerably more heart than i imagine possible for a work of surrealism .