La glace à trois faces

1927
45m

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6.9/10

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Drama Romance

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 wor... Read allPsychological 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 tha... Read allPsychological 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 ... Read all

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Jeanne Helbling

Lucie

Suzy Pierson

Athalia

Olga Day

Pearl

Raymond Guérin-Catelain

Le Soupirant
(as Raymond Guerin)

Jean Garat

René Ferté

L'Homme
(as Rene Ferte)

Director
- Jean Epstein
Writers
- Jean Epstein
- Paul Morand
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Alternate versions
This film was published in Italy in an DVD anthology entitled "Avanguardia: Cinema sperimentale degli anni '20 e '30", distributed by DNA Srl. The film has been re-edited with the contribution of the film history scholar Riccardo Cusin . This version is also available in streaming on some platforms.

Connections
Featured in Cinéma, de notre temps: Georges Franju, le visionnaire (1996)

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8/10

Hard to Fathom

Other reviewers are much more skilled than I. I am so impressed with their knowledge of film history. I chanced upon this film, which I put on a futures list several years ago. I was only able to find it in French so the few dialogue boxes were of little use to me (although I pieced a few words together). Here we have a psychological study of a young man who moves from woman to woman. He falls then bolts. There are some interesting cuts and some cinematic tricks here. There is little if any story, but it does captivate one eventually. The man is damaged and self destructive. Someone mentioned Resnais. I agree.