A lyrical impression of a rain storm in Amsterdam, this “city poem” observes, as the Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens put it, the changing face of the city during rain. Filmed at moment’s notice over four months and edited into a single passing shower, the film conceals Ivens’s meticulous care, relying on a bare minimum of light. This is Ivens’s masterpiece of the 1920’s, before he turned to social and political documentary. He likened its mood to a verse of the poet Paul Verlaine: “It weeps in my heart as it rains on the town.”