Le Double Amour
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| Directed by | Jean Epstein |
| Produced by | Alexandre Kamenka |
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Jean Epstein Marie Epstein |
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Jean Angelo Nathalie Lissenko Camille Bardou Pierre Batcheff |
| Cinematography | Maurice Desfassiaux |
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| Distributed by | Films Armor |
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103 minutes |
| Country | France |
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Silent film French intertitles |
Le Double Amour (Double Love) is a 1925 French melodrama film directed by Jean Epstein and produced by the Films Albatros production company.
Saint Blaise sur mer, 1904: Countess Laure Maresco sings for a charitable event at the Casino. She is told by her lover Jacques Prémont-Solène, son of a famous automobile manufacturer, that he has lost at Baccarat the money of the charity event that she had entrusted to him. When he threatens to commit suicide, she tells him that she will take the blame for the theft. Thanks to Baron de Curgis, a rich man in love with her, the scandal is avoided but she is ruined. In Paris, Jacques' father refuses to give him money and sends him to the United States to show what he can do by himself. Jacques writes her a letter confessing the theft and informing her that his father has forced him to go to America to start a new life. She considers suicide in front of the sea, but the fact that she is expecting a baby from Jacques gives her a new reason to live.
1924: Laure is now a renowned music-hall artist. Her son Jacques has inherited his father's addiction to gaming and Laure spends a large part of her money to reimburse his losses. Jacques Prémont-Solène, who has made a fortune in the United States, is back in France for his business. A friend takes him to a casino where he wins a large sum from his unknown son. When he wants to cash his chips, he is told that some of them, which are brand new, were stolen. From his description of the young man from whom he had won the chips, young Jacques is easily identified and arrested. He begs his mother to help him. Laure remembers the letter written by her lover twenty years earlier. She changes the date on the letter from 1904 to 1924 and brings it to the police claiming that Jacques Prémont-Solène is the thief. He confesses and, as he offers to reimburse the money, the Casino agrees to withdraw its complaint. Jacques proposes to take his son to America to secure his future and Laure agrees to accompany them.
This is the third film, after The Lion of the Moguls and L'Affiche (), directed by Jean Epstein for Films Albatros. While this gave him access to the important financial means of the Russian Cinema School of Paris, it imposed on him to give a more commercial nature to his films.
The dresses for Nathalie Lissenko ware supplied by the great fashion designer Paul Poiret and indoor scenes were shot at the with spectacular Art Deco sets designed by Pierre Kéfer. Outdoor scenes were shot mostly on location in Cannes.
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