Format:
[DVD] (90 Min.)
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teilw. viragiert
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dolby digital 2.0 ; Stummfilm
Series Statement:
Jean Epstein - Première Vague 1
Uniform Title:
Mauprat
Content:
Jean Epstein's 1926 silent film "Mauprat" is a wonderful discovery, thriving with unexpected, lovely impressionism to tell a seemingly old-fashioned story of brigands, unrequited love, wrongful accusation and amour fou. A number of the film's stylizations are particularly striking for the era. Perhaps the most impressive are the elaborate cross-fades. Seven years before Josef von Sternberg would use long, long over-lapping dissolves from one sequence to another to push the ability for these segues to make meaning and give impressions independently of their usual use to link shots and information, Epstein was himself pushing the poeticism and baroque impressionism of the technique. This is not merely one image overlapping another, but a variable layered collage of images, a distant shot of trees swaying in the wind laid under a shot looking up at the trees, laid under a shot of rustling bushes, the cinematic air thick with a sudden feeling evoked through this density of sensation ... [mubi.com]
Note:
Stummfilm mit franz. Zwischentiteln / UT: engl.
Language:
Undetermined
Keywords:
DVD-Video
