Le double amour

Double Love

A relatively classic melodrama, LE DOUBLE AMOUR was Jean Epstein’s third film for the Albatros production company, made between February and April of 1925. Like for L’AFFICHE (1924), Marie Epstein wrote the screenplay, which gave full expressive power to Nathalie Lissenko, star of Montreuil’s Russian studio. She plays the part of the Countess Maresco, simultaneously a mother and a dejected woman, a wonderfully tragic aristocratic figure to whom Camille Bardou, Pierre Batcheff and Jean Angelo gravitate, each in harmony with her collapses and laments. LE DOUBLE AMOUR is a film about a world of false appearances, gambling, baccarat and elegance. The dresses and suits were supplied by Drecoll and Paul Poiret. The photography is precise, and the lighting of the exteriors (almost all shot in Cannes) and the editing effects seem to foreshadow the filmmaker’s future poetic works, like the recurring shot of waves breaking…

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Jean Epstein, France, 1925, 104min, A relatively classic melodrama, LE DOUBLE AMOUR was Jean Epstein’s third film for the Albatros production company, made…