Female infidelity leads a man, Jean, to commit suicide. When he is dead his brother, Jerôme, starts having an affair with the same woman, Mary. But… there is a photography left of her first brother, who the second is getting closer to finding – hence the title (6,5 X 11 – an film negative format).

Wonderfully photographed with moving camera, superimposed pictures and a contrast that leaves nothing to be desired. Interesting use of the close-up to emphasize the story as well. And notice the use of the mirror to show how the story is about to repeat itself. The mice-en-scene could, throughout the film, be though to have come directly from a display of state-of-the-art modernist interior design architecture – stunningly beautiful. The men in this film all wear lipstick, silk garments and nail-polish in their very chic upper-class fashion. Oscar Wilde would not be let down. Do not miss this film, should you ever get the chance to see it.

Six.et.demi.onze.1927.Henri.WEB-DL.1080p-MH.mkv

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Language(s):Silent
Subtitles:English,French intertitles

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Based on the story by Honoré de Balzac. Caught in a storm, two young doctors book into an inn for the night and find themselves sharing a room with a Dutch diamond merchant. During the night Prosper steals from the merchant, but when he awakes in the morning he finds the merchant dead and his friend gone. When the stolen property is found on him he is arrested for the crime and executed. 25 years later the innkeeper’s daughter relates the tale to a traveler, who in turn later relates it at a dinner party. At that party is Frederic Taillefer, the missing friend and murderer.

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Language(s):Silent
Subtitles:English

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MOR-VRAN starts with a shot of the sea, followed by one of the map of the Breton coastline. Next, we see images of the various islands off the coast: harbours, a mill, sheep, a lighthouse, cemeteries. The women are dressed in black. In the port of Brest there is a great hustle and bustle. A sailor pays a visit to the fair and wins a chain. He returns to the island of Sein by boat. As the result of a storm he will never get there. After a few weeks, his body, with the chain, washes ashore. On Sein, people start repairing the damage caused by the storm. A young couple talks about the future, about buying a house and a boat. A widow visits a graveyard. With MOR-VRAN, Jean Epstein continued his series of films about the Breton coast. This documentary was obviously conceived as a silent movie: inserted titles explain the action, while music accentuates the atmosphere. Epstein creates a gloomy atmosphere by using pregnant images: the sea leaves serious scars on the islands off the Breton coast. Nevertheless, life goes on.

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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 dernière à Mariënbad” to a certain extent.

The.Three-Sided.Mirror.1927.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Language(s):English narration, French intertitles
Subtitles:English

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In a village in Brittany, a young maid and an old woman are spinning while the wind blows threateningly outdoors. In spite of the bad omen, the young maid’s boyfriend decides to sail away. Worried, the young maid ask for help to a mysterious old man and his magical crystal ball in order to calm down the rough seas.

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Subtitles:English hardsubbed

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In the kingdom of the Moguls, Prince Roudghito-Sing, a young officer of the palace, falls in love with Zemgali, a captive princess held prisoner and coveted by the Grand Khan. Fleeing the country, he takes refuge in Paris and his presentability allows him to be hired as an actor by a French film company. The trouble is that Anna, the star of the movie, is attracted to him. Which displeases banker Morel, the producer and Anna’s lover…

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Countess Laure Maresco falls in love with a player, Jacques Prémont-Solène. He loses a large sum and dreams of suicide. Laure prevents her, before learning that her lover has squandered the recipe for a charity party that she attended. His family sends the young man to America to put an end to the scandal. Twenty years later, after a fortune, he returns.

The film was reconstructed and saved in 1986 by Renée Lichtig from the original negative kept at the Cinémathèque française, a negative that had joined the collections in 1958. In 2009, with the help of the Franco-American Cultural Fund, the shades of origin have been reintroduced thanks to two elements from the collections: a vintage tinted copy and the original negative. Furthermore, this nitrate copy made it possible to reintroduce some shots and inserts that were missing in the reconstruction of 1986. In 2013, the film was digitized, and set to music by Karol Beffa on its original composition. The digitization work was entrusted to the Vectracom laboratory and the synchronization to the L’Immagine ritrovata laboratory (Bologna).

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A rather classic melodrama, Le Double amour is the third film by Jean Epstein for the firm Albatros, produced between February and April 1925. As for the second opus, L’Affiche , the scenario is signed Marie Epstein and gives full powers of expression to actress Nathalie Lissenko, star of the Russian studio in Montreuil. She interprets the Countess Maresco, at the same time mother and grieving woman, great tragic aristocratic silhouette around which gravitate Camille Bardou, Pierre Batcheff and Jean Angelo, all in tune with her collapses and lamentations. Double loveis a film about the universe of pretense, flambe, play, baccarat, elegance. The costumes and outfits are provided by the house of Drecoll and the great fashion designer Paul Poiret. The photography is particularly neat and the light of the outdoor scenes (mostly filmed in Cannes) as the editing effects can announce the next poetic works of the filmmaker, such this recurring plan of waves crashing against the cliff which structures the narration. Double lovealso allows Epstein to meet two loyal collaborators, the decorator Pierre Kéfer and the actor Nino Costantini. The remarkable decors invented by Pierre Kéfer and produced by Lazare Meerson allow daring shots, with a particularly great depth of field. Released in November 1925, the film met with critical success and the press evoked a “personal vision” and recognized a “technique accomplished” for the filmmaker. And Langlois to affirm: “It is enough to project a coil of faithful Heart and a coil of Double loveto realize the progress of Epstein. Despite his profession of faith, he knew how to assimilate the human element, to get rid of this kind of break caused by the disproportion of the vigor and the mastery of his technique and the poverty of his direction of actors. Double love is therefore not an indifferent work, and it was necessary for Epstein. “

Emilie Cauquy

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Language(s):French intertitles with music
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