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  • The Three-Sided Mirror (1927)
  • 45 min | Drama, Romance
The Three-Sided Mirror (1927)
45 min | Drama, Romance
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,...See morePsychological 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 regarded as a source of inspiration of Alain Resnais and this film prefigures his "L'Année dernière à Mariënbad" to a certain extent. Written by Hans Winter See less
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Director
Jean Epstein
Writers
Jean Epstein (adaptation) | Paul Morand (novel "L'Europe galante")
Composer
Jean Schwarz (1981)
Cinematographer
Marcel Eywinger (as Eywinger)
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Updated Nov 22, 1927
Release date
Mar 13, 1983 (United States)

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6 cast members
Name Known for
Jeanne Helbling's primary photo
Jeanne Helbling
Lucie Lucie   See fewer
Nuit d'Espagne (1931)
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Suzy Pierson
Athalia Athalia   See fewer
L'hirondelle d'acier (1920)
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Olga Day
Pearl Pearl   See fewer
L'étrangère (1931)
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Raymond Guérin-Catelain
Le Soupirant (as Raymond Guerin) Le Soupirant (as Raymond Guerin)   See fewer
Nana (1926)
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Jean Garat
Actor (as Paul Garat) Actor (as Paul Garat)   See fewer
Madame Sans-Gêne (1925)
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René Ferté
L'Homme (as Rene Ferte) L'Homme (as Rene Ferte)   See fewer
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