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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 Aquarium [L'Aquarium] (1878)](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/99804e_ccb1e2155217487dab2bcd9b181c668a~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_49,h_56,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/99804e_ccb1e2155217487dab2bcd9b181c668a~mv2.png)
![The Two Mischievous Girls [Les Deux Espiègles] (1878)](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/99804e_230ce414ab4241aeb8cd59d36aba7a37~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_49,h_54,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/99804e_230ce414ab4241aeb8cd59d36aba7a37~mv2.png)
![Passage of Venus [Passage de Vénus] (1874)](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/99804e_bf7f46073646416b811a46c320912452~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_49,h_27,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/99804e_bf7f46073646416b811a46c320912452~mv2.png)










