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Jean Epstein
Les Berceaux
Jean Epstein, FR 1931
Screenplay: Jean Epstein; Camera: Joseph Barth; Music: Gabriel Fauré. DCP (from 35mm), b&w, 6 min
Mor'vran, la mer des corbeaux
Jean Epstein, FR 1930
Screenplay: Jean Epstein; Camera: Alfred Guichard, Albert Brès, Marcel Rebière; Music: Alexis Archangelsky. 35mm, b&w, 25 min. French with English subtitles.
L'Or des mers
Jean Epstein, FR 1931
Screenplay: Jean Epstein; Camera: Christian Matras, Albert Albert Brès, J. Braun; Music: Thomas Kross-Hartmann, Marcel Devaux. 35mm, b&w, 74 min. French with English subtitles.
Le Tempestaire
Jean Epstein, FR 1947
Screenplay: Jean Epstein; Camera: André S. Militon; Music: Yves Baudrier. 35mm, b&w, 22 min. French with English subtitles.
Jean Epstein's films about Brittany are much more than precursors of neorealism: at best, Visconti's La terra trema is a worthy heir to their mixture of documentary fascination and lyrical power (and their closest relative is probably Michael Powell's magical island elegy The Edge of the World). Les Berceaux, with its poetic images accompanying a popular chanson, is already a foreshadowing of the beautiful documentary poem Mor'vran about the Île-de-Sein near Brest, accompanied by Breton folk songs. In L'Or des mers, an old Breton outsider finds a chest and becomes the darling of the village: a pretext for another dreamlike study of nature, which incidentally illustrates Epstein's insight ‘that in slow motion, every scene is good, and even a bad actor’.