1934: L'Atalante

A couple of newlyweds spend their honeymoon on a canal barge, but it is not obvious that for her he is the one and only. - The film, widely praised as one of the best ever, employs that old French favourite, the loosely structured screenplay, which has the usual downside of the movie falling into the nongripping category. On the upside, two really nice poetic ideas and lots of the hard-to-pin-down charm that old films often emanate. (6)