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Le Gendarme est sans Culotte (or, “The Policeman is Without Trousers”) concerns a dim-witted cop named Foezel, who is played by Marcel Lévesque, best remembered as Mazamette in the great crime serial Les Vampires. Lévesque, whose comic relief character practically stole the show in that series, also starred in his own short comedies. To my way of thinking he suggests a Gallic version of Jimmy Finlayson, Laurel & Hardy’s familiar nemesis, not only in appearance but in his vigorous, over the top performance style. […]

The story begins as Foezel finishes his breakfast, bids a fond farewell to his loving wife and mother, and sets forth to walk his beat, blissfully unaware that he is embarking on a monumentally lousy day. Meanwhile, a group of filmmakers have arrived in town and are preparing to film a scene. Several police uniforms are required, but they find that they need one more pair of trousers. They observe as Foezel strolls past, and, correctly assessing him as a likely sucker, select an attractive young actress from their troupe to vamp him. She lures him into a bar located in the hotel where the troupe is staying, and the fun is on! For everyone except Foezel, that is.

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A leading member of the French cinema’s avant-garde movement and the director of the Impressionist classic Coeur fidèle (1923), Jean Epstein broke with his more modernist colleagues in the late 1920s to make documentaries and fiction films grounded in the realities of everyday life. Before that evolution, however, Epstein filmed this adaptation of two Edgar Allan Poe stories: “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839) and “The Oval Portrait” (1850). The film’s significance lies not so much in its fidelity to Poe’s stories as in its atmospheric evocation of the author’s gothic sensibility. Misty, fog-shrouded scenes, slow-motion photography, markedly low camera angles, unhurried panning and tracking shots, intricate lighting, and numerous other camera tricks lend themselves to eerie supernatural effects. “Since the French Impressionist school has always considered the cinema to be like a visual symphony, we might call this film by Epstein the cinematic equivalent of Debussy’s works,” observed Henri Langlois, film historian and founder of the Cinemathèque Française, in Paris. “The actors were merely objects.”

Publication excerpt from In Still Moving: The Film and Media Collections of The Museum
of Modern Art by Steven Higgins, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2006, p. 130.

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