La Glace à trois faces

A Short film of

Jean Epstein

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Films Jean Epstein

Production year1927

Runtime39 min

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Psychological narrative avantgarde film about a wealthy young businessman who consecutively falls in love with a classy English woman (Pearl), a Russian sculptress (Athalia), and a naive working-class girl (Lucie). Overpowered by weakness, the coward sidesteps the obligations that love affairs impose: rather than living up to his dates he takes his sports-car from an ultra-modern garage and speeds to the fashionable beaches of Deauville. On his way, he is fatally hit by a descending swallow. The film is divided into three segments each of which consists of events the woman experienced. These sequences are embedded in scenes in which each of the three women is telling and casting her mind back to her own love affair. Thus, present, future and past merge and cannot be distinguished clearly. The intertwinement of several layers of time experience, recollection, telling and showing have been regarded as a source of inspiration of Alain Resnais and this film prefigures his "L'Année dernièr...

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Jean Epstein
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Jeanne Helbling

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Executive Producer : Films Jean Epstein

French distribution : Compagnie Universelle Cinématographique (CUC)

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Executive Producer : Jean Epstein

Screenwriter : Jean Epstein

Director of Photography : Marcel Eywinger

Assistant Director : Nino Costantini

Author of original work : Paul Morand

Production Designer : Pierre Kefer

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Type : Short film
Genres : Fiction
Production language : Silent
Production country : France
Original French-language productions : Unspecified
Nationality : 100% French (France)

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