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French Avant-GardeFilm 15 of 18
The Fall of the House of Usher
La Chute de la maison Usher
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Jean Epstein, 1928, from Poe. Roderick Usher (Jean Debucourt) paints his wife Madeleine (Marguerite Gance) until the sitting looks like a burial; a friend arrives; the house does what the title says. Slow motion, dust, a guitar string. Luis Buñuel was an assistant and left over how literal the adaptation should be. CNC restored the hour-or-so cut. Epstein wants the decay photographed, not explained.
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Poe in slow motion. Roderick paints Madeleine until the sitting looks like a burial, and the house does what the title promises. Dust, a guitar string, curtains moving in no wind. Buñuel was the assistant and quit over how literal to be. Epstein photographs the decay and does not explain it.
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