Coeur de gueux

(Heart of a Vagabond)

Archival Print!

  • Introduction

    Keller, assistant professor of art and cinema studies at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, is coeditor of the collection Jean Epstein: Critical Essays and New Translations.

featuring

Madeleine Renaud, Ermete Zacconi, Violette Napierska, Teddy Michaux,

Epstein’s films “are enthusiastically creative . . . such as [in Coeur de gueux] a long, slow track out from a close-up of a woman’s face, posing for a portrait, into an extreme long shot of the art deco apartment of her suitor” (Sarah Keller). This melodramatic film tells the story of Jean, a young man from a wealthy family, and Claude, a perfume girl with whom he falls in love. After a misunderstanding, Claude runs away with a circus caravan and the rest of the film tries to bring them back together. A beautifully shot film, bathed in every kind of luminescence.

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FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • G.B. Seyta
Cinematographer
  • Mario Albertelli
Language
  • French
  • with English electronic titling
Print Info
  • B&W
  • 35mm
  • 73 mins
Source
  • Cinémathèque Française