Country: France
Director: Jean
Epstein
Writers: Jean
Epstein (adaptation), Paul Morand (novel)
Stars: Jeanne
Helbling, Suzy Pierson and Olga Day
Also known as:
Der dreiflügelige Spiegel (Germany), El espejo de las tres caras (Spain),
Lustro o trzech twarzach (Poland), The Three-Sided Mirror (International -
English title)
Filming
Locations: L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise, France, Paris, France
Production Co:
Films Jean Epstein
Sound Mix:
Silent
Color: Black and
White
Plot Keywords:
Love Affair | Sports Car | Based On Short Story | Flashback | Nonlinear
Timeline | Bird | Avant Garde | Car
Accident | Based On Novel
Genres: Drama
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..
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