It Ain't Hemingway

oldhollywood:

1920’s-era Paris Stock Exchange in L’Argent/Money (1928, dir. Marcel L’Herbier)

“After a decade of filmmaking, I became obsessed by a single idea: to film at any cost, even (what a paradox!) at great cost, a fierce denunciation of money.”

-Marcel L’Herbier on L’argent, excerpted from his memoir The Head that Turns