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Essential Films
The Essential Films series of reviews by Ion Martea is intended to help readers understand how film has gone from being a mere curiosity to the most popular art form worldwide in little more than a century, by analysing individual films from the dawn of the medium to the present day.

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![The Lady Swimmer [La Nageuse] (1878)](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/99804e_3339b4c319b04c3aa59c98818d101f8a~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_980,h_1035,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/99804e_3339b4c319b04c3aa59c98818d101f8a~mv2.png)
![Battledore and Shuttlecock [Le Jeu du volant] (1878)](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/99804e_dee58f403819434eb0c9e76cfb219691~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_980,h_1147,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/99804e_dee58f403819434eb0c9e76cfb219691~mv2.png)
![The Butterflies [Les Papillons] (1878)](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/99804e_a93e2db0f6614424807ef44c9026c9c1~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_980,h_1154,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/99804e_a93e2db0f6614424807ef44c9026c9c1~mv2.png)












