“The windmills are not like the tulips which gracefully embellish the first sequences of La fille de Delft to make us understand that we are really in Holland! In this film we also have ‘picturesque’ windmills, but their continual appearance in the story makes them strident and ridiculous just for the fact of opposing the windmill struck by lightning which, at the beginning of the film causes the death of the miller Petrus. (The image which he reflects, in the background of the mill at twilight, already seems to lose the curse. We find the same indented backlit-shot in Le moulin maudit. No beautiful sunsets in Machin, as we have said, but twilight!)”. (Eric de Kuyper)