Directed by Jean Epstein
My rating: 3.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, All Day Entertainment)
A man compulsively paints portraits of his wife in a remote French castle. She gradually withers away and dies. Her husband, their butler, a doctor and a visiting friend carry her casket across the countryside to her tomb. Back at the castle, the husband fears they have buried her alive. Superb Gothic interpretation of the Edgar Allen Poe story, with experimental touches and an atmosphere of absolute despair. A neglected horror classic that easily stands shoulder-to-shoulder with its more famous silent German peers.
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