{"id":14006,"date":"2021-01-16T21:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T02:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14006"},"modified":"2021-01-16T13:52:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T18:52:01","slug":"the-three-sided-mirror-1927-jean-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14006","title":{"rendered":"The Three-Sided Mirror (1927, Jean Epstein)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three women are into one guy &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure if he loves and leaves each one of them in series, or if he flits between each in his suicidally fast car.  Pearl is a rich socialite, Athalia a rich artist, and Lucie an ordinary city girl, and he affects different personas around each: a strong tyrant type, a weaker type, and a caring type &#8211; until his reckless driving finally catches up with him.<\/p>\n<p><em>Our dude, carefree:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/mirrorthree1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d forgotten most of the plot by the next day, rewatching scenes now to remind myself, was just paying attention to style &#8211; Epstein bringing his great flair for composition and editing and overlapping images to the kind of melodrama he was making <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12874\">earlier in the decade<\/a>.  It feels like he wanted the climactic speed-and-death montage to go on forever.<\/p>\n<p><em>Athalia worrying aloud to a friend:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/mirrorthree2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Based on a novel by white supremacist Paul Morand, who also adapted <em>Don Quixote<\/em> for GW Pabst&#8230; Lucie appeared in Renoir&#8217;s <em>The Sad Sack<\/em>, and our main dude starred in a possibly-lost 30&#8217;s version of <em>Judex<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three women are into one guy &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure if he loves and leaves each one of them in series, or if he flits between each in his suicidally fast car. Pearl is a rich socialite, Athalia a rich artist, and Lucie an ordinary city girl, and he affects different personas around each: a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[526,2308,34,1214],"class_list":["post-14006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1920s","tag-doomed-love","tag-france","tag-jean-epstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14035,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14006\/revisions\/14035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}