Preceded by:
LA GLACE À TROIS FACES (THE THREE-SIDED MIRROR)(Jean Epstein, France, 1927).
A Marienbad-like tale, in which a man is loved by three different women, each of whom sees him completely differently. To know which is the “true” character is the province of the “narrator,” and the problem of the viewer.
(Written by Epstein, based on the story by Paul Morand. Photographed by Eywinger. With Rene Ferté, Suzy Pierson, Jeanne Helbling, Olga Day. 30 mins, Silent, French intertitles with English subtitles, B&W, DCP, From La Cinémathèque française)
Jean Epstein’s variation on the motifs of several Edgar Allan Poe tales relates the story of a painter whose obsessive desire to give life to his images drains away the life of his model, his beloved wife. Epstein’s poetic experiments with narrative form—most strikingly, his fascination with slow-motion photography to give, in his words, “a new, purely psychological perspective”—combine to make this a classic of art cinema.
Part of the JEAN EPSTEIN series at the BAMPFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
show less
LA GLACE À TROIS FACES (THE THREE-SIDED MIRROR)(Jean Epstein, France, 1927).
A Marienbad-like tale, in which a man is loved by three different women, each of whom sees him completely differently. To know which is the “true” character is the province of the “narrator,” and the problem of the viewer.
(Written by Epstein, based on the story by Paul Morand. Photographed by Eywinger. With Rene Ferté, Suzy Pierson, Jeanne Helbling, Olga Day. 30 mins, Silent, French intertitles with English subtitles, B&W, DCP, From La Cinémathèque française)
Jean Epstein’s variation on the motifs of several Edgar Allan Poe tales relates the story of a painter whose obsessive desire to give life to his images drains away the life of his model, his beloved wife. Epstein’s poetic experiments with narrative form—most strikingly, his fascination with slow-motion photography to give, in his words, “a new, purely psychological perspective”—combine to make this a classic of art cinema.
Part of the JEAN EPSTEIN series at the BAMPFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
Preceded by:
LA GLACE À TROIS FACES (THE THREE-SIDED MIRROR)(Jean Epstein, France, 1927).
A Marienbad-like tale, in which a man is loved by three different women, each of whom sees him completely differently. To know which is the “true” character is the province of the “narrator,” and the problem of the viewer.
(Written by Epstein, based on the story by Paul Morand. Photographed by Eywinger. With Rene Ferté, Suzy Pierson, Jeanne Helbling, Olga Day. 30 mins, Silent, French intertitles with English subtitles, B&W, DCP, From La Cinémathèque française)
Jean Epstein’s variation on the motifs of several Edgar Allan Poe tales relates the story of a painter whose obsessive desire to give life to his images drains away the life of his model, his beloved wife. Epstein’s poetic experiments with narrative form—most strikingly, his fascination with slow-motion photography to give, in his words, “a new, purely psychological perspective”—combine to make this a classic of art cinema.
Part of the JEAN EPSTEIN series at the BAMPFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
read more
LA GLACE À TROIS FACES (THE THREE-SIDED MIRROR)(Jean Epstein, France, 1927).
A Marienbad-like tale, in which a man is loved by three different women, each of whom sees him completely differently. To know which is the “true” character is the province of the “narrator,” and the problem of the viewer.
(Written by Epstein, based on the story by Paul Morand. Photographed by Eywinger. With Rene Ferté, Suzy Pierson, Jeanne Helbling, Olga Day. 30 mins, Silent, French intertitles with English subtitles, B&W, DCP, From La Cinémathèque française)
Jean Epstein’s variation on the motifs of several Edgar Allan Poe tales relates the story of a painter whose obsessive desire to give life to his images drains away the life of his model, his beloved wife. Epstein’s poetic experiments with narrative form—most strikingly, his fascination with slow-motion photography to give, in his words, “a new, purely psychological perspective”—combine to make this a classic of art cinema.
Part of the JEAN EPSTEIN series at the BAMPFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
show less
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