The Fall of the House of Usher
Alternate title(s):
Foreign Title: La chute de la mâison Usher
Date: January 01, 1928 to February 01, 1929
Dates Note: 1928
Country of Origin:
France
Place of Origin: France
Languages:
Color: B&W
Silent: Yes
Based On: Stories by Edgar Allen Poe
Additional Info:
With music track and French intertitles with English subtitles
Curator Notes
Description:
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.
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