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The Fall of the House of Usher (French: La chute de la maison Usher) is a 1928 French horror film directed by Jean Epstein, one of several films based on the 1839 Gothic short story The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe.
The Fall of the House of Usher: Directed by Jean Epstein. With Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy, Fournez-Goffard. Allan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Jean Epstein
- 1928-10-05
Mar 3, 2002 · The great hall in Jean Epstein's "The Fall of the House of Usher" is one of the most haunting spaces in the movies. Its floor is a vast marble expanse, interrupted here and there by an item of furniture that seems dwarfed by the surrounding emptiness. An odd staircase rises from one distant corner. It is not impossible that this vision, in one ...
A traveller arrives at the desolate Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants, Roderick and Madeline Usher, are living under a mysterious family curse: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline continues to get weaker with time.
Oct 30, 2004 · A stranger called Allan goes to the House of Usher. He is the sole friend of Roderick Usher, who lives in the eerie house with his sick wife Madeleine. When she dies, Roderick does not accept her death, and in the dark night, Madeleine returns.
Aug 25, 2022 · The Fall of the House of Usher. As Frederick Usher paints the portrait of his wife, she becomes increasingly weak. She soon succumbs, but Usher refuses to believe she is dead. The film interweaves the short stories The Fall of the House of Usher and The Oval Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe.
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France, 1928, 35mm, black & white, 61 min. Print source: Cinémathèque Française Share Long considered a masterpiece of French impressionist cinema, The Fall of the House of Usher ’s uncanny camera effects now seem closer in spirit to the symbolist poets than the impressionist painters.
