The Fall of the House of Usher (Surrealism in Cinema)
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Films
The Fall of the House of Usher France 1928 | Jean Epstein | int. FR stEN | 61’ | digital | Cast: Marguerite Gance, Jean Debucourt, Charles Lamy | Based on: the eponymous short story by E.A. Poe.
Live piano accompaniment by Hughes Maréchal. Summoned by his friend Roderick Usher, Allen comes to his depressing and dilapidated house. There, Roderick fervently paints portraits of his wife Madeleine, who is dying of melancholy... “A strange mix of Gothic design, modern austerity, expressionist angles, graceful camerawork and surreal effects, it’s an atmospheric classic that becomes increasingly more surreal…” (Parallax View).
Pre-program: Le Ballet Mécanique France 1924 | Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy | 13’ | digital “The pictorial error is the subject. The cinema error is the script. Freed from this negative weight, cinema can become the gigantic microscope of things never seen and never felt.” (Fernand Léger).
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Cinémathèque Luxembourg
17 Place du Théâtre
2613 Luxembourg
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