Three-Sided Mirror, The (Epstein)

Director: Jean Epstein
Stars: Jeanne Helbling, Suzy Pierson, Olga Day
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

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). 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.

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